“Everything is Spiritual”
In the Garden of Eden man walked with God. God is Spirit and man was flesh and Spirit also. When satan convinced man that he could be as wise as God, a big problem arose. Man was only intended to know the good and not the evil too. His actions in this separated him from God. Since God is Spirit, the Spirit left also. Man has been searching for that Spirit ever since.
When man is born, he immediately begins searching for that Spirit. The first thing he does is cry. His seed was formed in heaven with that Spirit of God. When he is birthed into this world, he cries, “Father” and cries out all his life for him and that perfect relationship until he finds it. The problem is, he doesn’t know what he’s looking for or where to find it.
Man is made up of three parts, spirit, soul and body. The spirit which is the conscience or consciousness of God. The soul, which is the mind, will and emotions. The body, which is the flesh.
The word Pharmacy is interpreted, “sorcery”. So what does sorcery have to do with this?
I grew up with two sisters and two brothers. My father was gone most of that time. He had a bad alcohol drinking problem. Mother took us to church every week while our father was out searching, crying, “Father”, caught in an nonspiritual fog looking for the Spiritual. My mother was English and my father was Irish. Well the Irish have a history of drinking a lot and it seems to run in the genes, because it ran through the male side of our family. Daddy went to a christain tent meeting, I don’t know where, but he met the Spirit he had always searched for and the alcohol spirit among other things left him. My mother and dad got back together and lived happily ever after.
I grew up as a fairly happy kid, but I could feel there was something lacking and didn’t know what it was. The older I got, the something lacking got worse. In that searching for something more, alcohol just happened to show up. When I drank the searching and crying seemed to quieten down some. The yearning would really get bad when I had a hangover and couldn’t drink. I tried to cover it with new cars, new toys, new wife, from one thing to the next. Nothing helped. All these things were meant to cover the searching and crying. I even tried drugs. I saw with my own eyes, a Budweiser beer can grow 20 inches tall after taking two tabs of acid. I smoked pot, hash and some other things. I didn’t like those because I felt guilt too strongly afterwards. After all I was Irish and in my eyes drinking alcohol was ok. By the way, the conscience we were talking about earlier is that place where, when we do something against God’s way we feel guilty.
What ever would alter my mind and cover up the searching and crying and yearning for something I didn’t know, was what I did. In my hippie years, we would sit around the campfire, talk and wonder about the world and God and who He was, if He was real. If we could get high enough, we would know and understand all those deep things. We would even invent terms to explain what we knew. All I really learned was how to spell “wow” backwards. Well the the searching, yearning and crying only got worse. A lot of the people I knew went deeper into in their journey trying to find spiritual truth in drugs and alcohol.
A pharmacist is one who mixes drugs together to fix a problem, that in itself is not bad, if to fix a problem in the flesh. To take drugs to fix a spiritual problem is. It’s called “sorcery”. In many cases a mental problem comes out of a Spiritual problem. Thus, the term “mind altering drug”.
So, taking drugs and alcohol to find the spiritual is “sorcery”. The devil tries to counterfeit the word with light sticks, man floating in the air and such, in the movies. We can never find God’s Spiritual truth in “sorcery”. We didn’t know that in our searching, we were not looking in the place where God said look. He simply said, look around at what I have made. In our minds, it’s got to be more difficult than that, isn’t it?
I heard that about 80% of all Americans takes some kind of drug that alters the mind. Drugs to calm us down, drugs to lift us up and such. In the hippie world we called them uppers and downers. Uppers to help us search and downers to help us cover the searching and crying. All alter the mind. I heard a minister say once that depression is, “suppressing the Holy Spirit”, I agree.
Mans spirit organ is designed to house God’s Spirit also. When His Spirit is not there we search and cry “Father”.
To stop the yearning, searching and crying is a big business in our world today, money wise. It is very important to the devil, who hates you and God that you all stay in the searching and crying mode forever. He loves it when you find him in the drugs, as long as you don’t find God. Don’t worry, God won’t allow us to find Him there.
In the scriptures God said there are world leaders that have governed nations with “sorcery”. How is that? Do you remember the hippies? The ones that never found the Spirit, and are ruling today with the wisdom they found around the campfire getting high. The spirit they found was not God’s.
The utopia teaching we hear today from our government officials, such as, abort your children before they are born for your own peace of mind. Take money from one and give it to another. We can just talk to our enemies and not fight, Give drugs to the addicted to ease their misery and on and on.
The Spirit that we searched and cried for is good and kind and wars with His sworn enemy. We knew Him as a seed and will recognize Him when we come near Him. Don’t accept a counterfeit through drugs and alcohol. By the way why is alcohol called, “spirits”?
PS: When I came near to some people that really knew Him, I knew that what I had been searching for was near. I cried out to Him and He answered. I found what I had been searching for all those years. He fixed all those things I damaged while searching and crying.
David McClary
“Voice From The Mountain”
3-15-16