The Insane Expect Miracles

Insanity is easily defined as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. It is the inability to learn from our experience. When a child is small, they soon learn that a pot of boiling water is hot and will burn if they put their hand in it.

When we become aware of God, or a greater power, we soon learn that God is the inventor of cause and effect on one side and on the other is the interventor in the very rule He instituted. This means that, sometimes, one can put their hand in a pot of boiling water and not get burned. God's intervention in these laws of nature is known as a miracle.

There comes a point in some of our lives where we engage in destructive behavior repeatedly, and somehow expect a miracle, or intervention from God each time. We need to learn that God's intervention is not part of the law of cause and effect, but instead our egocentric minds dismiss God because He failed to deliver on our unnatural expectations.

If we feel that God has let us down, or isn't responding to our prayers, we need to do a reality check. "Am I living within the bounds of my natural abilities?" It is very easy to say that a man who jumps from a skyscraper thinking he can fly is out of check with reality. What part of your life flouts your natural abilities?

We are created with three basic instincts. Physical survival (eating, etc.) Species survival (reproduction.) Politcal survival (society, strength in numbers). Sometimes there is a need for a miracle within the natural extent of these instincts, such as food in a time of drought. Most of the time, our desire for a miracle comes when we extend one of these instincts outside its natural place.

Some may use food to replace reproductive or social instincts. Some may use sex to replace social interaction, the list of combinations is extensive. It is important to ask for God's help to seek a balance in all these areas, as the desire for excess may tranport itself to another instinct when we squash it on our own. We must also recognize what is natural and what is spiritual. Unfortunately, what begins as mental may need to be treated physically as well as spiritually. Expecting spiritual healing from bipolar mental state is very much like expecting spiritual sustanance in place of a good steak and potato. We must sustain our mental, spiritual and physical or we are insane.

Not all insanity exhibits itself as burns or promiscuity. There is spiritual insanity. Those who worship dead gods are insane. Those who believe much prayer and sacrifice make them closer to god are insane. Those who uphold ritual over obedience are insane. They are living in the expectation, or hope of, something that will never happen. Their faith is like the faith of the guy jumping from the building.

Do I sound insane?