Which of us has not said, many times in our lives, “Just One More.” “I can handle it. I will do what I should do – after just one more of what I know I should not do?” We all have. The seduction is in the idea that we will do different tomorrow. Remember, tomorrow never comes. When what we called tomorrow does seem to come – It Will Be Now – not Tomorrow. And it will feel exactly like the day before when we said we would do what we should do – Tomorrow.
Lucifer loves to plant the thoughts in your mind of “Just one more time, just one more piece, just one more day”. Lucifer knows that it is easy for us to rationalize that it is okay to put off what you should be doing – just one more time. We are very sincere when we say “Just one more time.” However, when the moment is here for you to follow through on your promise, the moment is the same as the last moment when you made the promise. It is never a different moment. It is never a different feeling in a different moment. It is the same decision, the same choice, and it feels like the same moment as the one when we said “I will do it tomorrow”.
The only time we have to do anything is life is the present moment. We cannot do anything tomorrow, next week, next year – or next lifetime. It is always Now. Now is all there is. Now is all there ever has been. Now is all there ever will be. We exist, move and have our beingness in the moment – in the Now.
Not every thought you think in your mind is YOUR thought. Lucifer plants words and sentences in our mind so carefully, so beautifully, that we think WE are the one thinking the thoughts. You are not your thoughts. You are the one WATCHING your thoughts. You are the one watching your train of thought. You are the one who decides which car on which thought train to hop on and ride. This is the value of silent meditation. You become aware of having thought and not BEING your thoughts.
You are like a little consciousness sitting on a chair in the back of your mind watching everything that passes in front of your eyes, watching every thought that passes through in the front part of your mind and hearing everything that goes in your ears,
You do not have to become attached to any of the visual, audio or mental thoughts passing in front of you. What we call thought seems to be both words and pictures. We do not actually think in words. We think in sort of picture emotions that we then put words to in order to store the thoughts in the library of our mind. Words are our codifier of experience. Words are how we store the experiences in the filing cabinet of our mind. Each word is like a brush-stroke on the canvas of our understanding. Until we ‘SEE’ what each word represents or symbolizes, we do not understand. The more words we know, the more detailed and colorful is our “picture” of understanding.
Perhaps we will see the beautiful girl or boy in our mind. Then we will have thoughts about the picture which will lead to more pictures, which will lead to more thoughts, and on and on. Perhaps we will see the alcoholic drink and then mentally taste the alcohol. Perhaps we will see the marijuana cigarette, and then actually feel ourselves inhaling the smoke. Perhaps we will see the video game and then actually feel ourselves playing the game. We cannot have an emotion without the thought, the picture first. We cannot even know what someone is talking about until we “see” what they are talking about.
Lucifer gets in step with the train of thoughts we are thinking and gently adds a word here and there, adds a picture here and there. Lucifer adds just enough to gently move us in the direction that will keep us out of the Inner Sanctuary of Omnipresence. Just enough gentle nudging so that we will think it is our own thoughts and our own desire to do whatever we are referrencing when we say, “Just one more time”.
The Omnipresence of God means that there is no part of your being from which God is absent. In truth, there is only God, but to understand the different aspects of God, we need to put labels on them. . The word Lucifer comes from the Latin Lux and Ferre meaning “Light-Bringer or Light-Bearer”. Lucifer is just a label for an aspect of Omnipresent God. Lucifer is a most important aspect of Omnipresence. Lucifer is God’s spiritual quality tester. Since the aspect of Omnipresence that I call Lucifer is such an important aspect of the personality and omnipresent reality of God, Lucifer is aware of each and every thought you think. Lucifer can do nothing to you that you do not actively participate in. You have to dance with Lucifer for Lucifer to have any influence in your choices. Remember, it takes two to tango. You have to agree with Lucifer and agree to “Just one more time”. When one dances with Lucifer, and then feels he or she screwed up, then there is the tendency to blame it on Lucifer – blame it on the Devil – when it was our choice to do the dance.
Lucifer’s only job is to test the sincerity of our heart intentions. Lucifer is an ancient angel of the highest rank whose sole purpose is to protect the inner sanctum of the Omnipresent Intelligence from impurities entering. Since we are one with God, all the Universal Power of God is available for us to use. Lucifer’s job is to make sure that we do not get our hands on more of the Omnipotence, the Universal Infinite Power of God, than we can handle.
Anytime you say, with heart-felt conviction, “I have learned my lesson. Next time I will treat this situation differently. Next time I will do what I know I should have done this time”, you have made a date with Lucifer. Lucifer has to come to check out the sincerity of your heart-felt intentions. This is Lucifer’s job. Lucifer will come when you least suspect it. Lucifer will come when you have stopped thinking about changing your response next time Lucifer may come tonight, tomorrow, next week, even months from now. Lucifer will come more than once - until you pass the test more than once. Then, someday, somewhere, Lucifer will come again to check you out at least one more time.
The next time you say, “Just one more time, just one more bite, just one more piece, just one more toke, just one more stroke, just one more drink, just one more day”, of anything you know you really should do differently, then just say one thing to yourself, “NO”, and move on. Keep saying no, no, no, until your thought train starts moving in the direction you want it to go. As long as your heart-intention is true, you thought train will begin moving in the direction that you know it should and that you truly want.
One more time, one more piece, one more day, one more toke, one more smoke, one more drink, one more orgasm – NO !!! Be the master – not the slave. Say to Lucifer, “I have no desire to dance with you.” Then think the thoughts you want to be the thought-train you want to ride. Lucifer will resist, but if your heart intention is pure, Lucifer will have less and less power. Lucifer will come back someday just to make sure your heart-intention is still sincere. However, since God has many things for you to do the more you are able to handle them, Lucifer will not waste more time if your heart-intention is pure.
Remember, it is only in the here and in the now than we can make our choice and live our choice. Tomorrow will never come, as it will always be now – whenever it is and wherever you are. Regardless of how many times you put off doing what you know you should be doing. No matter how many times you say “Just one more time”. When it comes time for you to prove your sincerity of intention, it will feel the same as Now, because it will be Now, it will feel the same as Here because it will be Here.
Walk the Spiritual Path of Righteousness.
HERE AND NOW !!!
