I am not the keeper of all wisdom, God is.  Go to him or to his word if you want the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  Try as I might part of me always gets in the way of my perfect dissemination of that truth.  That does not mean that I am being willfully disobedient, just that this humanity clings to me in such a way that I can feel its weight upon my thinking and conversation.  If that is the case that my humanity gets in the way of my spiritual works in spreading the Gospel, then it is by definition an enemy to my walk.  Prepared with this understanding how then do I say to anyone with confidence that my advice is better than their own conclusive decision making or discernment from the Voice of God

It isn’t.  Face it self, if you could have done this the Lord never had to travel from heaven to become a man and finish that to which I was ill intended.  Self help, self actualization, higher self, supreme self are all the same descriptive phrase that bid us win the battle with our own will.  My self is not capable of achieving what my spirit calls me toward.  If you are recommending I go into spiritual battle armed with the weapons of self-actualization, you are sending a sheep to slaughter, unarmed, ill-equipped, destined for failure and un-fulfillment.  I will not be led by satan’s siren called to try to win a spiritual battle with my worldly resolve, power or will.  This is the greatest fool’s errand, perpetrated by fool’s or those who have you be one.

I will not recommend, lead you into or direct you toward a spiritual battle unless you are armed, prepared and educated as to the weaponry of the battlefield upon which you will capture victory.  Go first with God, the knowledge of God, a relationship with God for it is HE that wins any spiritual battle engaged by believers.  If you think you are going to win with your own powers then you are a witch, sorcerer or worse yet completely misinformed.  Only satan’s minions utilize personal power on the spiritual battlefield for they are using his power given them for a short while until he consumes everyone and everything out his lust for power and dominion over all.  The Lord Jesus rebuke him and send him to the abyss if he so chooses.  If you are looking to be powerful know this you are setting yourself up as an enemy of God, for satan shares nothing but pain, deception and destruction.

That is all the attention need given the enemy for even evil serves the Lord’s Good Plan.You want victory, find Christ.  You want salvation and forgiveness, honor your relationship with Jesus.  You want power to overcome this world and everything in it, go to Christ who has already done so.  This is not an exercise, a feel good pep rally designed to give you chills until they wear off by Wednesday.  This is the Word of God and the Word of God is Jesus, the spoken Power of Creation and the rightful King of All.  Stay away from self-help if you truly want healing go to the Master Physician himself who died so that we might be healed of “ALL” our ills.  Stay away from self-help, do the greatest thing any one of us can to help ourselves and that is surrender control over our lives to the Mighty, Caring, Deft and Divine hand of God.  All wisdom comes from God so the people writing those books, pushing those seminars and showing examples of the Golden Calf to which you may dedicate your passions have either taken their knowledge from the Bible or from the enemy.  Do you want the copy or the King.

Be cautious, be careful but live in the abundant Joy that only comes from Christ.