I woke up this morning with an unusual feeling – a noticeable hunger for reality. I had been having one weird dream after another and waking up sometimes relieved that they were over and could be escaped by waking up and realizing they were just an odd collection of people and events put together, but they were really just fiction. Then it hit me – that's really what my perception of life is. The way I view others and circumstances and try to put it all together – they may all be factual and really exist, but how I try to make sense of it all always produces just fiction. That's all I'm capable of producing. The father of sinful flesh is also the father of lies. Left to myself it is completely impossible for me to come up with a right view of reality no matter how plausible it may sound. Then I thought of the The Analogy of the Satellite Receiver.

The Analogy of the Satellite Receiver

I was programming my satellite receiver yesterday. As I input multiple large numbers and set different variables and then pressed start, the unit would take my collection of inputs and see if they perfectly matched up to receive any signals. If the inputs were correct I would usually come up with several new stations that would now be available to see and hear whenever I choose to tune them into my TV. One time I received quite a list of very unexpected stations, many of which are mostly unusable foreign stations and one or two that I decidedly didn't need for their debasing content. I began to realize that the likelihood of me stumbling across the right combinations of numbers and variables to enable the receiver to capture signals and translate them into usable TV programs without getting them from a reliable source is slightly above the mathematical odds of evolution being viable. The possible combinations of large numbers and settings easily ranges into the trillions plus, not counting the time to slowly enter them all and let the unit attempt each one. If I can't get someone to tell me the right formulas or read them from reliable sources it's just not going to happen no matter how reliably my receiver is functioning. On top of that, it was explained to me by a person in the industry that some stations have scrambled video signals that is apparently beyond the capabilities of my receiver to decode no matter how accurate my inputs are. I would need a subscription decoder box from a pay TV company to be able to use those signals for my entertainment. I wonder if I spend most of my life trying to line up numbers and variables in my mental receiver to discover the right formula to capture signals from Reality that I crave to experience. Obviously there are many bogus sources of code that promise to deliver reception but only give me a blank screen.. Many people have sought deeper sources of code that have divulged combinations that when plugged in really do deliver images and sounds, but only to discover that the signals they are now locked into are less than life-giving or even worse. There's another fact about my receiver I noticed. You cannot delete stations once you lock them in. They just keep adding to what you already set up. There is only one solution to escaping the results of your previous programming. That is to press the Master Reset button that erases all information and eliminates all reception good or bad. You then are allowed to start reprogramming from scratch and if you have the right inputs and codes from the desired sources you will be able to receive the desired signals and enjoy clear receptions and communications. My head receiver has been preprogrammed to receive a number of channels that seem good at times but end up destroying my soul. I try to avoid tuning into those channels but they still show up and tantalize me with their enticing images unexpectedly. Meantime I continue researching various resources that offer bits of correct code. Another source gives me another usable variable and once in awhile I even catch a fleeting glimpse of a glorious channel containing scenes and scents of beauty and awesome sounds and experiences almost too exhilarating for my soul to handle. I have been assured that there really is a superchannel that constantly beams Reality TV that is so good and satisfying and life-giving that most people refuse to believe it is even true. I cannot discover the right arrangement of all the correct numbers and formulas by randomly punching them in. Multiple lifetimes would not be enough time to come across them. There must be only one way to be able to tap into Reality as the rest of the universe enjoys it continuously. Someone from that realm must personally come and give me the various inputs that will be designed specifically for my model of receiver to enable me to be flooded with true images and experiences of what constitutes true Reality as God intended it for me. Yes, the condition of my receiver can have an effect on the reception. That's why healthy practices in body and in imagination management as well as factual accuracy for mental diet is quite important. They enhance or distort the communications received. But those factors are not the same thing as having the right numbers and codes. Just because I have a pristine receiver and a top-of-the-line wall-size TV screen all hooked up correctly does not mean I will receive the right signal to bring me into life-giving programming. I have to have the secret formulas correctly entered and stored. And for that I must access and petition the correct One and only Source to share the complex keys that will unlock my heart and soul and bring me into Life. I may have to experience Master Reset experiences to disconnect me from stations that are distracting or poisoning my soul and spirit. This is always traumatic but necessary to clarify my perception and deliver a more refined picture of God and Reality to not only my own mind but to those who are watching me. Each time this happens I then need to be reprogrammed with the correct inputs, laying aside the false codes this time so that I restrict my reception narrower and narrower to the channels that receive and produce life and light. As I think about this I realize several things about these inputs. One is that some of these inputs are entered, replacing incorrect faulty inputs, only at very significant points in my life. Others have to be entered daily and even others have to be received on an almost continual basis to receive maximum reception. The foundational inputs are core beliefs about what God is like and how He designed us to function in life. This is almost always in dire need of massive correction given our standard preprogramming from our parents, our culture and our faulty religions. These need to be learned and updated through various channels but from the one and only reliable Source Himself. These are input at various times in our lives, sometimes at very dramatic and memorable moments that we never forget. But often we have to be reminded over and over hundreds of times from numerous sources to keep counteracting the lies that so permeate our psyche. This dramatically affects how we see the big picture of life, the context of what is Real and what is true and reliable and even determines the sources we utilize to receive further codes for input. The weekly input code is one designed by God largely to unify His family and develop and nurture His body. Much can be said about this and much more misleading information is freely circulating to keep people off base about getting the correct numbers. There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.... Then there is an important daily input for our receivers to work correctly that must be entered for those who are serious in their quest for Reality. This quiet time of synchronization early in the daily cycle of living is very crucial to staying/getting in touch with God's feelings, emotions, desires, passion and His personalized directions for each individual. Most people downplay the importance of this input or cut is short before it is completely entered. They content themselves with simply letting life happen to them and relying only on their weekly or just occasional inputs to equip them for the daily experience. They often wonder why their reactions to events are so poor, why they seem to make so little “progress”. They come to view life as unpredictable and uncertain and often see God the same way and as rather arbitrary and somewhat untrustworthy. They want to be a Christian but they don't want to surrender too much of their own control or time to receive and input updated codes on a daily basis. Those who have more totally devoted themselves to a deeply serious pursuit of truth and Reality find an even tighter arrangement of updates for fine-tuning their reception. These are ones who discover they can keep a dedicated communications channel open to the supernatural that in addition to all the previous correct codes, and building on them, they can receive continuous updates and instant messaging to create in their lives an efficiency of power and a through-put of supernatural energy that is seldom seen in this world. These are people that have surrendered themselves enough to be made efficient channels of communication to this world of strong messages from the glorious world just beyond. This is the condition that all of God's people will have that live through the last events of earth's history as we know it today. This is the kind of person many claim to want to become but are unwilling to surrender their own pleasures, their favorite code-source providers, their own schemes for success that confuse the accuracy needed to receive the right channel. They may also be unwilling to let go of prejudice, pride, selfishness or bitterness that blocks their receivers from projecting life. They might be unwilling to humble themselves and go through the pain of self-exposure and fear to cross the bridge of vulnerability to healing and new life on the other side of their boundaries. Many are called but few are chosen. “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants.” Deut. 30:19