8030	Forums / Main Forum / Too Much Reality?	on: January 13, 2007, 01:08:45 PM
This is an extremely complex reality to even understand enough of our own reality to know even 50 percent of who we are when we look at the potential of our self knowledge. We can say that God knows us absolutely and He understands the beginning of who we are and the end of who we are both in time and intimacy. So is it important to have that kind of reality that God has about us? First it is impossible since we are made up of body and spirit for us to know every thing about ourselves. First because we do not see spirits and we do not understand what each faculty of spirit in all of its reality to be able to examine , mold , guide , divide and change. God looks into our spirits and like a doctor does a spiritual operation. Because we do not see as God sees our spirits we get sensations that are going inside of us as we are filled with the word and Spirit and these sensations of peace and fruit of the Spirit are healing balms that are like a scalpel of a surgeon to work into our souls a spiritual healing in exactly the rite time at the pain and change that we need to experience. This is where we meditate on Him and we allow the word to penetrate our soul and body to divide our loves so that we will only love one Person. It is a mental exercise because we are being transformed in our understanding of who He is by this mystical operation done apart from our willing and effort, we are as it were resting in Christ as we ponder the message of the gospel and the love of God that us unconditional in the usage of His operation since Christ did all of the work on the cross in healing. We begin to focus mentally on the deep things of God, we begin to view Christ with spiritual eyes. Our souls are given eye salve as we rejoice in the gospel. The Spirit uses our pain as a cauterizing technique to keep us from spiritually bleeding to death and loosing the focus and power of Christ that deepens after the wound is sutured. What we do is focus on what we see. The exercise of meditation seems trite to our finite thinking. We are averse to contemplate the inward operations that a man goes through in this world since we get preoccupied with the physical universe. We fail to ingest the word of God and in failing we loose so much time in the flesh warring after the lust of this world rather than being put to sleep for spiritual operations so that we can be change by the renew technique of Gods instruments. Dont be afraid to ask God to search our hearts. Because He is holy the instruments He uses are not moral clubs and human techniques. No He comes to us in such awesome ways with absolute power that we are trembling in the greatness of His love, bowed down in that beatific vision. We are left to worship Him because of all of the sensations by operations and the scares that are healed so that the focus of our lives are lost in eternal contemplation's. What power we experience is over bearing and the power of the flesh has lesson with so much searching. We begin to understand that God is holy in His presence. We begin to have sensations that we know when God is near and we are so satisfied in that presence that we have no other option but to have another searching, another surgery so that we become lost in Christ, with a most profound knowledge of His presence keeping us from the power of the world, the flesh and the devil. We beginning to have a thick layer of spiritual skin, a really powerful spiritual antidote so that the discipline we go through in the operation is a means of so much grace that instead of us being weakened by the operation we are given more strength after the operation as a result of our sin. Christ reigns, our life is hid with Him. We are becoming more and more into His image. An this includes these inward sensations.