Heart Recognition "Software"

"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will rest you.  Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls." Matt. 11:28-29

We live in days that are filled with frustration.  Indeed, we live in days of uncertainty.  Everywhere we turn there is the shrill and metallic voice of programmed discontent.  The mathematical modeling of human behavioral responses to given situations has been at the disposal of corporations and governments for quite a while.

It is fairly well known that if human beings are bombarded with a significant amount of stress events certain behavioral patterns will emerge.  Deliberate and provocative stress will after a time wear down protective behavioral patterns.  At that point the individual is so overwhelmed by the unrelenting level of stress that he surrenders any attempt at resistance.

Then the individual can be trained to respond to the administration of stress with positive reinforcements.  That is, the person is rewarded for desirable behavior.  Desirable behavior is behavior that the manipulator subjectively finds positive and desirable.  People are merchandise today.

Soon there will be no such thing as privacy.  Everything to be known about anyone of us will be encoded on microchips and massive servers around the earth.  The human genome project was designed to map out the secrets of our molecular selves.  It seems that in this world all knowledge is dangerous knowledge.

The world is no longer 'nation' states as such, but 'world game' controlled by multinational economic entities.  The programmed complexity of post-modern society can be exhausting and bewildering. The social DNA of post-modern society is carefully cultivated through the manipulation of currencies and violence.

Nothing is left to chance with the social engineers.  The social engineers will only clone the amoral fiction that meet the needs of the Controllers whose greatest thinking culminates in reviving the tired old mistress of socialism. (More on this later).

God does not leave anything to chance either.  God has heart recognition software that predates the controlling efforts of post-modern society many centuries.  God knows that the human heart can become weighed down by burdens that wound and paralyze.  For those who are exhausted and grieved by life God has seen your situation.  God has come in the person of the Iesous with 'rest' for the spiritually harassed.

The rest that God gives is out from both self-induced and other-induced misery.  It is a supernatural rest that cannot be googled.  It cannot be accessed from some remote server or uploaded or downloaded.  It is rest out from God as a source.  He is higher than the man made surveillance satellites that litter the immediate heavens.

God's rest is in the Iesous. God's rest is primary and without co-pay or fee schedule.  God's rest is literally the cessation of riot within the heart.  God's rest is a state of being.  It is not snatched away by the those who would sell the dust on the heads of the miserable ones.  God's rest is not subject to punitive levy.

God is not offering an invitation in verse twenty-eight.  The first word 'Come' is not an invitation but a command stated in the imperative.  Read the verse carefully to absorb its powerful and prescriptive language.  God's rest is for the one who is loaded down over above the cubic capacity of the heart to bear.

The Greek word for rest is anapauso.  The prefix on the word means 'up' and 'pauso' means to cease, or to stop.  Is this cool or what?  No medical plan today covers cardiac care in this comprehensive manner! The word anapauso also means to restrain something that is going on in the heart.

You must appropriate God's rest through faith.  You must come to God and believe that he is, and that he rewards those who diligently search him out. The command to 'come' demands a positive response to God.  God's heart recognition software is designed to accurately know and minister compassionate love.

God already knows that the human heart is filled with selfish patterns of behavior. God knows that people know their own self betrayal, and their betrayal of others. God knows that we have violated trust and practiced unforgiveness.  God knows that we practice spiritual autism.  That is, the cultic worship of the self. God knows that eventually we grow weary of the massive weight of the self-lie.

The command of God is to surrender the cult of the self and find rest in Iesous. Those who are weighted down may be lifted up by God.  Those who come to the Iesous will find rest for their souls. Peace is a rare and precious gem in this world.  Rest is given to those who trust God.  Rest is given to those who heed the command of the Iesous to "Come unto Me."  

The moral anchor of Faith is under heavy attack in the west.  The culture is under assault.  There is the opaque promise of another Utopia, but Utopian societies are often managed by tyrants. Utopian cultures have promised much over the centuries, but, alas have accomplished little. Utopian societies have always imploded due to the weighty ego of its founder.

There is not egotistical claim from the Iesous.  He can say that he is "meek and humble" and not earn a skeptical retort.  There is no arrogance in God.  God can say that he is meek and humble. He will not judge the soul that begs his rest.  He will not reproach the one who lays bare his deepest need.

Those who are worn thin by life's adversities can find a home in the Iesous that will not be threatened by anyone.  The Ieosus has rest for those trapped in the dismal fiction of the post-modern digital wilderness.

People have lost the sense of being human.  Their self-consciousness is being reduced to binary calculations.  They are becoming digi-trons.  They are at the edge of the old world of 'human being' and are precariously in danger of falling off.  The heart is in need of rest from the thought forms that are being fed to it at the subliminal level.  

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