The Alpha of the 5 D Life

UV 3003/10000 The Alpha of the 5 D Life

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might
Deuteronomy 6 v 5

The first and most vital commandment is to be devoted to the Lord. We need to love the Lord with all of our hearts, minds, souls and strength. It means that we need to both fear Him to avoid evil and love Him to do all manner of good, walk in all His ways and serve Him with all our hearts. Next to devotion is dedication: we need to dedicate ourselves to excel in our work. The third “d” is discipline: we need to subject our bodies, our minds and our mouths to godly discipline. Our habits should speak of a lifestyle of discipline. The fourth “d” is diligence: we need to keep studying and learning from the Lord, the word and the world on improving whatever we are doing. The fifth “d” is determination: we need to set goals for ourselves in different domains and spheres of our lives and be determined to achieve these goals or targets we have set for ourselves.


Devotion to the Lord is all encompassing. No part of our lives can remain uninfluenced by our devotion. Our bodies and minds are to be presented as a living sacrifice, implying that we give up whatever is not pleasing to the Lord, whatever is not in accordance with His will and word. Our minds are like magnets that attract what is positive, wholesome, healthy, good, noble, worthy and repulse what is evil, negative, unhealthy, unworthy of the Lord. We need to place a sieve on our mouths to run our words through several invisible filters before we utter these. Devotion in turn engenders dedication to our work for we are to regard whatever we do as if we do it not for an earthly master but for the Lord Himself.

The five dimensions or the five d’s are like a spiritual cascade: starting with the highest-the devotion to God and ending with the lowest- the determination to achieve set goals, to carry out things as per a plan that is in line with our overall vision of life. The third “d” of discipline of our spirit, minds, bodies, temperaments, mouths, appetite or desire for various things is vital to produce determination or will power in us to achieve set goals. The fourth “d” of diligence is a requisite to keep learning how to live and do better whatever we are doing. When we lead the 5 D life instead of the average senses-based, emotion and desire- driven 3 D life that humans are naturally inclined to live, our lives will be pointed like a flinthead arrow heading straight towards fulfilling the purpose of our creation and redemption. Instead of a flight or fight syndrome, we will be living in an ever-flowing, overflowing pattern of life marked with the grace of God, the compassion for people or empathy, divine guidance, intuition, supernatural wisdom, energy and enthusiasm, excellence of character, competence and calibre. Instead of ‘hamartia’ or shortcoming or failure, we experience ‘hyperbole’ or holistic success exceeding normal human expectations and accomplishment.