If you found yourself in a wilderness a lone, what will be the first thing to think about? I am sure it won’t be wild animals or your wealth, neither your class. The uppermost thought will be, where to find a people you can keep company with.
This is inbuilt in every human being. We were created to need each other in life. To lament this interpretative aspect, God made sure that everyone has a talent. Lacking in the other person, so that we will always be reaching for assistance from one another. If we want to understand how the human family’s interlinked, and how we can’t do without each other, let’s look at the human – body-parts. This will bolster the knowledge in a very clear and strong way.
For this kind of association to work; Yes, for the linking and assistance for one another to be possible, we have to be in a continuous conference. How do we go about it?
COMMUNICATION
It is by way of communication. How does it help? To ensure this, we first need to understand what communication is. Communication is the activity or process of expressing ideas and feelings, or of giving people information. Speaking is the fastest way of doing it between individuals.
By communicating one shares their ideas of doing things, their feelings and desires, yes even their griefs and sorrows. For this to be successful, we need to understand ourselves. We are not like God. And so, there are somethings which are not in our knowledge to understand, nor in our power to do. Our creator tells us; “No one can understand the thoughts and intents of another person’s heart, except that person’s spirit – I Corinthians 2:10”. This is where communication comes in forcefully, and why we can’t do without it.
So, if one decides to keep quiet and lock his/her inner self from others, then one will remain a stranger and it will be impossible to help or assist such a one in the desired manner. People will remain to guess at him/her and in an effort to help they will be more offending than comforting.
Since, everyone needs a complete and fulfilling life which is smooth-running, then we have need for information either from, or for others on how to go about it. We need to acquire talents from others, as we also give what they lack. It therefore calls for sincerity and openness on each side. Do you want help, communicate your problem sincerely in order to let the other person know it, so that with understanding, they can offer the right solution. Do you feel you need to assist the other person, don’t guess-work about it, let him or her first give you information on exactly what their problem is.
COMMUNICATION’S BIGGEST ENEMY
God has plainly told us that, it is impossible to know somebody’s mind unless one tells you. The worst thing which the today’s generation is using in relating with each other (and this is done because one doesn’t communicate) is imagination.
To imagine is, to form a picture or an idea in your mind on what something may be, or is like. It is to believe something that one forms in the mind about something which is not true. This is the biggest enemy of communication and the cause of all social disorder in the today’s world. This brings about what God calls judging others, and which He forbids-Matthew 7:1. For one imagines (wrongly) something about somebody and applies it in treating that person, thus impacting the wrong treatment which in return draws a negative reaction. The conflicts we are seeing in the world today, originate from imaginations.
Do you know where it originated from? “…and you will be like the most high Genesis 3:5”. How is God like? “For it is you God alone, who knows the hearts of the children of men – I Kings 8:39”. Yes, men imagining to be like God thinking they know everything. Try to read the hearts of others, draw conclusions out of the ignorance of their own hearts Jeremiah 17:9.
Know and understand that this is Satan’s alternative whose effort is to divide and cause confrontation among human beings in an effort to destroy and kill. Yes, imaginations are a product of the lie of Eden.
WHAT DO WE DO?
“Do not do according to what you think; in everything refer to God and He will strengthen your path – Proverbs 3:5” God is hereby saying, “Don’t imagine; ask and you will be told. Seek knowledge from the other person and you will get”.
The today’s civilization is built on imagination, and I believe everyone is witnessing the results there in. hot sports packed with conflicts are all over in the globe. There is not single a single country in the world which is not experiencing the products of applying imaginations instead of open and sincere communication. The author of life has started his church to display to all human beings what He had in mind when He created us, for He says, “ …and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages…that through the church, the manifold wisdom of God may be made known – Ephesians 3:9-10”.
So in a conflicting divided world, God has chosen a people (church), and made them, to come out of this lie of Eden, that they may show the world an example of how to communicate and be unified in the true one human family with each being part of the other. What instructions Has he given the church which is what He meant for all human beings?
SELF DENIAL
Since what we know and think about ourselves is from that lie of Eden, then we must first deny ourselves to begin with – Matthew 16:24. This will give room for a free and open mind without prejudice. After that, it is important to acknowledge the bible as the very God’s guideline for mankind on how to live (manual).
Once we take this step, communication will be very simple because no one will be fighting for or defending self, but rather, we will all be struggling for the true and right thing. We won’t be arguing in an effort for one to show themselves as better of, or to be greater, since we know we are a mere dust, like grass – Genesis 18:27; Psalms 103:14.
So, it will be easy to unite in that one mind of striving to become like God, not like one of us. We will have nothing to hide about ourselves and so, we will be open to one another and free to enquire from, and listen to one another for the right information.
If everyone is sincerely striving to be like God and keen on listening to what He says (about everything) in His instructions (the Bible), what will we argue about? What will we differ about? What will we try to hide? God is one, and so is His way of life. If we turn to Him (everyone individually), we will bear His one mind, and have a communication which will make us to be, “…agreeing without divisions, united in the same mind and the same judgment-I Corinthians 1:10; Ephesians 4:3-6.
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