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i learned ants really have no concept of us as humans because of their limited eyesight and how big we are to them. they see us as moving shadows, or wind, or like obstacles and landscape (i imagine mountains). makes me wonder what’s in front of me right now that’s too large for me to comprehend.
I know it sounds counterintuitive at first: why should you change your identity first in order to achieve your goals? Let me explain.
You do not have a discipline problem. You have an identity problem. The person you are right now is built to produce the life you already have, and anything that does not align with that person gets dropped after a few weeks.
Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon who fixed people's faces and watched them stay the same person underneath. In Psycho-Cybernetics he wrote: "You will 'act like' the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. Not only this, but you literally cannot act otherwise, in spite of all your conscious efforts or willpower."
That is the whole problem. If you want a specific outcome in life, you must have the lifestyle that creates that outcome long before you reach it. Nobody is fighting their goal. They are fighting the gap between who they are and what they say they want.
And you are not undisciplined. All behavior is goal oriented, and you are already very disciplined toward one goal you never picked: staying the same. That is the one you have to change first.
Do this now:
1. Write down where your current life ends up in 5 years if nothing changes
2. Finish this sentence: "I am the type of person who..."
3. Pick 2 things that person does daily and start them now
You are not forcing a new life out of the old you. You are becoming the person that life already belongs to.
Every atheist I've debated eventually lands here: if God is real, why can't we see him? I used to fumble this. Then I read 1 Timothy 1:17.
Paul is mid-argument about grace and his own conversion when he breaks suddenly into praise:
"Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever."
"Eternal," "immortal," and "the only God" make sense as praise. But invisible? We don't praise men for being unseen. Why does Paul list it as something as glorious as the majesty and immortality of God?
Unless invisibility is not a limitation. Unless it is out of gracious design.
Paul met the unmediated light of Christ on the road to Damascus, he was knocked into the dirt, and blind for three days. He knows what the alternative to invisible feels like. It produced collapse, not worship. His praise is a survivor's testimony.
When people ask for God to be visible, they don't understand what full divine visibility would actually require.
God is omnipresent in essence. Therefore, total divine visibility fundamentally requires omnipresent visibility.
If God reveals Himself to the fullest extent of His capacity, He must be visible everywhere, at all times.
In the room you closed the door to. In the moment you spent your life believing nobody was watching. A visible, omnipresent God is not majestic; He is psychologically catastrophic. Nobody wants this, not even the devout.
Look at Isaiah 6. The prophet sees merely the hem of God's garment filling the temple, not the full glory of God, just the overflow. His response? "Woe to me, I am undone." A partial glimpse unmade him completely.
God isn't after bland empirical agreement. James already ended that: the demons believe, and tremble.
Intellectual assent is a bar the devil clears daily.
God isn't running a census of the convinced; He is seeking genuine love. And genuine love requires genuine choice, which requires that the object of love not be overwhelming.
This is why women despise love bombing. A man who floods your psychological space until refusal becomes impossible isn't loving you, he is eliminating the conditions for love. The "yes" he extracts is engineered by exhaustion.
God does the exact opposite. He veils His glory precisely so that you retain the dignity of saying no. The love bomber makes himself so large that you have no choice. God makes Himself small enough that you do.
Which brings us directly to the Incarnation.
The Incarnation is God making Himself visible enough to be known, but small enough to be rejected without fuss.
It is the most precise solution to the most precise problem: God doesn't arrive as a sky-filling terror, but as a baby in a manger in a backwater town. You can walk past a carpenter from Nazareth. You cannot walk past the throne of Isaiah 6.
The Bible is already clear that every knee will bow, a day of compelled reality as certain as the sun. But God is not eager for a forced crowd. Right now, He is seeking the single, freely given return of a heart in love.
When an atheist asks why he cannot see God, he is asking a better question than he knows. The answer is not absence. The answer is restraint.
Now one can finally understand why Paul says INVISIBLE, and means it as highest acclaim. It is not a limitation, it is a mercy.
WRITE YOUR DESTINY
Become insane. Reject mediocrity. Everything's within your reach. Nothing is impossible. Stop limiting yourself. Upgrade your character daily. Prove everyone wrong. Never doubt yourself. Play big. WIN. Make every millisecond count. Fear nothing. Life is a game. Accomplish your purpose.
You're not hungry enough, and it shows.
Listening to every opinion while neglecting your inner voice. Choosing not to take control of your own life.
The game was always about you, but the weakness you borrowed from others made you passive in pursuing what you want from life
You must start pursuing your passions. It can be anything, the most random thing, because that's what makes you feel alive, that's what puts the spark back in your eyes.
In a world where meaning is just a concept - create it.
Live for it.
Control your sexual desires and discipline your desires. Don’t let your ability to satisfy your sexual desires make you lose what’s divine & lasting. Be patient & wait on the lord.