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When a bee regards an assortment of beautiful flowers, how does it know which flower to choose for its desired need? How does a reader determine what book to read? What are some important factors that influence human decision making? The color of a flower is a strong determinant for bees when selecting a flower for pollen. The non-visible odor of a flower is also an important factor. Recently, another less visible factor, has been discovered that attracts bees to flowers and that is an electric field around the flower. “Flowers generate weak electric fields and a new study shows that bumble bees can actually sense those electric fields using the tiny hairs on their fuzzy bodies.” (npr.org ). A book, they say, should not be judged by it’s cover and so it is with the selection of a flower by bumble bees. A flower’s color, like a book’s cover is not the only determining factor. The content of a book, like pollen, is in essence, the desired product for a reader. The desired pollen from a flower is retrieved when the bee makes the right determination by using it’s relevant senses and looking for patterns that lead to pollen in a flower. We are sensual or sense - ual beings, it is a part of our natural structure. Sense of sight connects and intertwines with the sense of smell, taste and touch to inform us and influence our decision making process. Appearance, often the first experience we have with something, is important and conveys a very influential initial message to our minds. Adam, the first man created and described in Genesis 2 must have had a strong sense of discernment. His initial unbroken alignment with our Creator, God, must have allowed their communication to flow seamlessly. We are spirit, mind and body. There are unseen factors that influence everything. “Human decision making is strongly biased by unconscious mental processes that sometimes cause good outcomes quickly but sometimes cause us to make irrational choices.” Jeff Johnson, Designing with the Mind in Mind. 3rd edition. When Adam selected an appropriate name for each animal, I imagine he had to go deeper in his analysis and used all of his five senses of taste, smell, sight, hearing and touch. In addition to his five senses he had access to spiritual tools of wisdom and insight that went beyond the natural environment. A clarion call today, I believe, is for all of us to go deeper in are process of sense making. The quality of the content in a book, the essence, like the pollen in a flower, is acquired by going deeper. Let’s take a deeper dive by using our God given spiritual discernment. With our heavenly Father we acquire the guidance, understanding and truth that we need in everyday living. Let’s go deeper in acquiring understanding. Let’s go deeper into the meditation of the word of God to gain understanding, revelation and truth. There is so much, especially in this world today, that we should not take at face value. © 2018-2023, Annette O. Brown Creations, Media. All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured by the author.
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12/16/2022 4 Comments ILLUMINATION (Re-post) The Announcement, The Witness, The Word. By Annette O. Brown, Christian Author. ILLUMINATION The Announcement “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1 v 1- v5 (NIV). This morning I read John 1, a scripture I have read many times and heard many interpretations of. The Holy Spirit, of course, always provides new revelations and insight. The word is a part of the being of God. Just as we, in similar manner, speak, our Creator spoke Christ into existence. This Christ was an illumination of God, a part of Himself. John describes this essence of God coming as light into the dark, blind, unknowing, non comprehending creation. He came in the form of Jesus the Christ to us, and we, his very creation and made in His image, did not recognize Him. Recognition, as unveiled by scripture, came to some, when the Lord used specific sources and means to reveal Himself. Luke records in scripture that a host of angels appeared to a group of shepherds. The juxtaposition of heaven and earth is revealed in this glorious visitation of heavenly beings to shepherds on earth. “Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” " Luke 2 v13-14 Transformed by their experience the shepherds went to see the child that they were told about and after experiencing the child, announced earlier to them, they told everyone about their encounter. The Witness “There once was a man, his name John, sent by God to point out the way to the Life-Light. He came to show everyone where to look, who to believe in. John was not himself the Light; he was there to show the way to the Light.” John 1 v6-8 Messenger “There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.” John 1 v6-7 NIV John knew that he was “tailor made” to be a witness of the coming of the kingdom of God and the coming of the Christ. His whole life was dedicated to this purpose and when he saw Jesus he announced: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1 v 29. (NIV) The Word Do we recognize the Word sent by God today? The Christ came, fully God and fully man, to be a light and a witness to us. Jesus the Christ, a manifested gift of our creator’s agape love! "He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. " John 1 v 11-12 (NIV) We have been provided with a gospel that is recorded in the Bible. These records are important tools for insight and teaching. Our personal response to a “personal God” is the key, however, to tapping into the benefits and revelation the Lord provides. Let us receive Him and believe in His name so we can become the children or offspring of God that we were originally designed to be. il·lu·mi·na·tion/iˌlo͞oməˈnāSH(ə)n/ noun
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AuthorAnnette Brown embarked on a life journey of Christianity, over 20 years ago. A reflective educator and avid constructivist - reflection has been a part of her daily work and a tool for personal growth and assessment. Birthed out of this practice is reflection connected to divinely inspired insight and revelation . Her first book "Encounters and Reflections - Can you hear me now" encompasses these perspectives through a lens of story telling and photographic images. Archives
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