Spiritual Eyes

You find before you a very high wall that you must and will climb. The other side of this wall you will find the Spiritual Experience that changes everything. The things that torment you now you will find them to be the blessed Cross. You've read books on other countries before you visit, but when you arrived you found that you had not fully understood the books. The same and more is true for the bible and spiritual books. We can not look at them with the same eyes as the writer until we have shared in the Experience that turns the others into a mirage.

God's love for you does not change, just your ability to see it. The Lord is expressing His love for you in the realm of reality and this is partially reflected in the physical realm. This physical reflection if viewed from the perspective of the physical looks deceptive. The physical eyes call this torment. The spiritual eyes call this a blessing. So this gives you an extraordinary situation, the blessed torment is the blessed cross. This is how the torment and devastation will turn into a blessing.

I used to enjoy counseling and would often use the knowledge I learned to fix my own life. I had become quite good at understanding how the mind worked so that I could work out the problems in my life. I learned how to fix some of my problems that were not Christian, as I thought the bible directed. But that is all a lie of the old nature.
"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and takes up his cross daily and follows me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it." LUKE 9:23-24
He says you must deny yourself, not stop sinning. You must not try to fix (save) your life but rather set it aside (lose it). You can NOT deny or lose something that you are trying to fix. So we are free from sin and the torment of the world only when that part that is subject to torment is denied or lost. So whenever I'm stung by sin that part of me I must find and deny. The pain must not be justified with my time but set aside for God.

The fight is not against sin and Evil but with our desire to fight sin and evil. The tree that Adam and Eve ate of was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Before the apple Adam did not know of evil so he could not know of his evil ways. He found out later that the things he was doing were wrong, he had no clothing! God had only said one thing in the garden was bad and that was the tree of knowledge. Why only this tree and not the other things. What was the first effect the tree had on Adam? The first thing that Adam saw was his nakedness and he wanted to be covered. Adam had the need to do good and this lead to him hiding from God. Our old nature wishes to do good not our new. God knew Adam had eaten of the tree when he was to ashamed of his "sin" to spend time with God. Genesis 3:10-11

I have seen that God's love has always been with me. I have started to also realize that I have been in union with God. I thought I had to gain or earn this but have found this not to be true. I have instead found that I have been on a journey to open my spiritual eyes.

Would You join me on this journey?