Have you ever been feeling full of energy and enthusiasm and ran into a person or situation that wrung out the last drop of your energy? When you walked away, you felt like you had been rode hard and put up wet. Always make a note when that happens and try to avoid similar drains in the future.
One day I realized Einstein was right – that everything is energy. We cannot manage anything unless we know what it is. If we see people as protoplasm, it affects the way we deal with them. Take Einstein's word that all things are energy and you can manage the energy around you more skillfully.
Even a creek rock is energy. It has swirling atoms and molecules. It is alive. Everything is alive. Everything and everybody you meet during the day either replenishes your energy or sucks it out of you.
Once when a woman reached out and touched Jesus in a crowd, he stopped and asked, “Who touched me?” His disciples saw He was being pushed and shoved and contacted by many people and they said, “Master, everyone is touching you.” But he said, “No, I felt power (energy) go out from me.” He could feel her need, her faith. He could read energy like a book. He gave her the healing energy she needed.
One reason he had the energy to heal her was he did not allow his energy to be drained away by meaningless activity and people who were energy slurpers. He was happy to honor someone’s faith and need, like the woman who touched him in the crowd, but he did not waste energy on people who drained energy in negative ways.
His ability to read energy (an ability we can learn once we see all as energy) enabled Him to direct his own energy skillfully. One thing that kept his energy at high levels was that he was clear about his mission in life and constantly opened up to his Source in times of quiet solitude.
He did not waste his energy on meaningless debates with people who did not want to learn but to argue. Even at his trial when his life hung in the balance, he refused to debate with Pilate. He knew the politics of the situation. The Sanhedrin wanted Jesus killed and they were important to Pilate in maintaining the peace. He did not waste his energy on Pilate and the noisy rabble.
He never wasted energy begging others to follow him. He trained his followers to shake the dust from their feet and move on when people resisted the ideas he had taught them. He called it “casting pearls before swine,” a very graphic image about knowing with whom to share the treasure of your energy. He wasn’t putting people down by likening them to swine except that swine would not know the difference between a kernel of corn and a pearl.
Some people are like that. They are robotically into accepting only that with which they are familiar. They have their little kernels of life they swallow and if you put a pearl among the kernels they will either leave it in the trough after they eat their kernels or just thoughtlessly chew it up. Pearls of spiritual truth are not meant to be chewed up without thought. They are meant to be polished, relished and cherished.
He never got too traumatized and weary to direct his energy to an honest, truly needy human soul. One of the men crucified beside him sensed the powerful energy he possessed and simply asked, “Master, remember me.” Jesus said, “Today you will be with me in paradise.”
He was such a master of directing energy that he could tote a bloody old thief to heaven with his last dying breath. Study him and you will learn how to manage your energy and the energy all around you.
By Dalton Roberts
www.daltonroberts.com
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