secrets

 Repeatedly it appears that God wants me to keep secrets from you. God doesn't want you to know. But there are many things that God does want you to know. He wants you to know the things that are necessary to get into the eternal Paradise. He wants me to know those things too, and do them.

We live in a Time where we are list oriented. Tell me what to do in steps. But the two things that we need to do to prepare for entering the eternal Paradise are to love God and love other people as yourself. The first place this becomes awkward is money. It seems like if we did this exactly according to God's instructions we would give one third of all money we made to God, then we would give one third to other people and then we would keep one third for ourselves. This would be loving God loving other people and loving yourself in equal proportion. But God says he only needs 10%. So after taxes that leaves you 90% of your expendable income. So you could give everybody else 50% of that 90% and you could keep the remaining 50%.

Then there is your time. As we all know time is money, so that makes time equally important money. So for this discussion we'll say that 1/3 of your time is already spoken for by sleep. Unfortunately sleep really isn't productive. Sleep isn't God and sleep is another people and sleep doesn't let you do anything else. If anything sleep is a huge negative opening you up to dreams that you can't control. Disgusting filthy rotten random irritating dreams. Dreams that are created selected and carefully crafted by an infinite being and then stuck into your brain against your will. But you could say well that's the one third that God gets. I'm giving God 8 hours of my life each day by going to sleep. My guess is God is going to give you a big lecture at the very best and possibly just throw you right into the lake of fire at the very worst with that kind of an answer.