Discernment of spirits is indeed difficult. Some learn/teach from the mind, some learn/teach from the heart. What is the truth? How do we know that a location, vision, calling or simple “feeling” can be from goodness or from evil? How does one come to know the will of God when there is so much tension within one’s soul? The light is removed from each of us when we sin, or it diminishes and becomes dim when we turn away from the face of God. Several of your recent posts have been resonating within me.
It is important that we have someone, or some earthly body of Christ to help us discern in our own hearts, in our own time simply because we all are at a different place within this place, longing for our eternal reward. Matthew Chapters 5-7 does help show us just how difficult our journey is. We cannot deny what The Christ taught, yet many people find it much easier to pick and choose just how “they” believe they might be saved. The Christ man/God told us most of everything about social justice in those three chapters. We cannot say we are the religious right, or moral majority, or Catholic, or anything and pick and choose our personal agenda. There is but one agenda. Any word that means anything, means nothing at all. He is the Way, Truth, Life. God does not remove the candle stick from us, we simply choose to turn off that light because we love our passions more than His Passion. Rev 2:4 explains that ‘you (I) have lost that Love’. God never removes His love, we simply turn away. Our choice. To live we cannot choose. To live we must humbly obey His Love. Tough love takes on another dimension does it not?
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