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What is the meaning of trust in God and putting your heart in Him, instead of worldly things. How important it is to cleanse our thoughts and be aware of the kind of thoughts we allow into our minds. What is love, and how you can really love yourself and other people. How important it is to be thankful about the things you have in your life. How not just your behavior or words towards other people can affect them, but even the thoughts you have about them. How important is to study and to meditate over religious texts.
The third part of the book is interesting. It talks about the “wilderness mentalities." The Israelites were walking across the wilderness for forty years, to the point where many of them died on the journey. Why did this journey take them so much time? Because they had the wrong mentality!
So, in this part of the book, the author talks about this “wilderness mentality” that you mustn’t hold back if you want to achieve your goals and not remain stuck in life like the Israelites that were in the desert for such a long time.
This way of reading the bible by trying to interpret the psychological lesson intended is really valuable. In fact, there are many people that do this along all their life with many ancient texts. So, in this third part of the book the author tells us the kind of thoughts, attitudes and ideas that you must not hold. Many of them are obvious and psychologically already well-known. But some others of them are not that obvious and are interesting. So, the Israelites were plodding along in the desert, complaining about their situation, blaming Moses, and with no faith in God at all.
In short: a total disaster.
Then the author adds that the Israelites didn’t want to take any responsibility for themselves, they wanted to achieve their goals easily, they wanted to give up, etc.
It seems they needed to undertake that hard journey in order to be prepared to reach the Promised Land, precisely because they weren’t yet ready for it. In this sense, that journey across the wilderness was means to spiritual development, and obviously this can be used as a metaphor for everybody's personal spiritual journey.
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