7272	Forums / Main Forum / Adjustment To The Government Of The Holy Spirit	on: July 05, 2007, 05:14:34 PM
We are here for His glory. It is the absolute best for us. But we become attracted to the things that do not matter because we like to feel at home in a disposition of complacency. But we must go on in our faith. And yet true freedom comes as we realize that every inch of the universe is occupied by the eternal Person. We do not exist without Him being near and seeing our hearts. The very movement of things around us are brought on by His active presence , so that reality is not as we see it with our eyes but as we desire to see through the glass dimly the glass of His revealing Himself to us. Once we see Him we become realistic about who we are and what we are here for. Tunnel vision is from a lack of freedom in God. When we feel helpless because of fear or anxiety we are being defined by our former way of thinking and feeling. When we were first awakened to eternity, and our identity with Christ life and death we were under the power of regeneration of the Spirit. We were full of new life and we had a sense of the awe of God. That freshness was so freeing to us that we were able to be rid of worry and anxiety so that we were assured in a special way of Gods powerful working in us by subduing our flesh and making us breath the new air of the Spirit. And as we become aware of the reality of our shortness as we grow in grace it becomes a source of contention that there is more in trusting than that first simple trust. Yet He not only subdues our flesh so that we can experience trust in assurance but He gives us His word so that we might subdue our pride in thinking that we have become able to trust on our own. It is breaking us down to simple trust again that we are brought to see Him face to face. We then get a new glimpse of Him through the dim glass, and we are assured of Him being all in all, present in all, and bringing eternity to bear on our present struggle. When He appears once more we are free to have confidence beyond our thinking of what He could do through us when we were struggling and proud. We see Him and we believe He can do much more that we could ever ask and think, and His love is  far greater than we thought in our fleshly views. ree thought has exhausted its own freedom. It is weary of its own success. If any free thinker now hails philosophic freedom as the dawn, he is only like the man in Mark Twain who came out wrapped in blankets to see the sun rise and just in time to see it set. Integrating philosophy is always dangerous. For years mental illness has been looked at through integrating scientific theories into Theology.This scientific paradigm is the new religion. If we were back in the biblical times the Apostle would have written against it as he did against Gnosticism and all of the other pagan philosophies. We are like the frog in the skillet who cannot recognize the heat. Intertwined into the community of churchman ship and in the world of relationships is this spirit of determinism. It can no longer be seen a help to theology but it is the cause of the depression of mens exalted views of God and the valuing of eternal things. We see that the bible does not really have integration as its change power structure in relationships. But the word describes a process of renewal, a transformation through weaning. Because mans natural addiction to ableness is to integrate this paradigms peremaders far and near are  bondage and extend not farther than fatalistic ends. The out growth of these communities create the paradigms of determinism and fatalism. The bible calls us to add to our faith by weaning. As a child is weaned from its mothers milk, so we are weaned from the rudimentary structures of thinking of this world. We graduate from milk to strong meat. The process is to be wean slowly from our love for this world to a love for another world. We go through weaning by a change in the very core of our being. We are being changed with a new set of desires. Our view of God is foremost in the weaning process. Even tho we have new life and we have the ability to see spiritual things and spiritual truth, we still need to go through a process of sanctification in order the grow into adulthood. Our baby views of God are under much of the old life, we are not really convinced consistently about His forgiveness ,love ,faithfulness, goodness, holiness, and presence. In the renewal process we experience sensations that are part of the process of our viewing God as God. These desires cause us to be still. To be like a weaned child with its mother. The process of stillness is a peace that comes as a result of our view of the importance of Gods attributes in their effecting us and creating a new image in our hearts. That is the image of Christ. When we learn to wean the biblical way, integration will not be our natural spiritual renewal mechanism. But we will learn to love God by viewing Christ as His image through weaning away from all of the things that blur that view. In grace weaning we learn more and more that our loves are changing from the core of our desires. We will see new views of ourselves, our relationships, and of the world and the things of this world. When we learn to wean away from this world we are going to be able to face trials as under the hand of Gods loving discipline rather than fatalism. We will naturally learn to let go of the idols of our hearts by weaning as we grow in our desires for Christ. As we learn to wean we will learn to rest in Him. Our views of our minds are changed. We learn to view Him as all important, and we learn to view relationships, things in this world, struggles and all of the physical problems as reasons to desire Him and His glory in our mournful experience. In that mournful experience we are learning to view these things differently so that we will not be anxious about our lives. As we wean away from sin, the world and the Devil, we will understand the proper views of these paradigms in our view with our spiritual eyes.