Just wanted to preserve this little bit of a discussion from a thread in the SFPC section ...
Who wants to reap destruction? Moriah does. Frequently, yes, it does. And therein lies a major key to its OWN times of "not wanting to stop". Moriah more often sins as an act of desperation and anguish than for the purpose of "indulging" in some kind of "pleasure". When it bes there in that hellish place it has no pleasure.
However, to balance this picture, just as you said for yourself, Moriah ALSO finds that "there is something more appealing in holiness and purity than in sin" and that it, too, bes poignantly and heart-wrenchingly drawn to goodness and kindness. It bes an absolute sucker for genuine, unfeigned, unconditional love ... just a few drops of the REAL DEAL and you can literally get this poor feral demonised wretch practically on its face at your feet. It bes pathetic like that.
Take that away though, crush its heart with harshness, malignant judgments, condemnations, shame-nailing, force-feeding it toxic things that make it feel forsaken by God, or turn traitor on it, betray it, whatever, and it will quite literally seek blindly and desperately to destroy itself, fully aware that bes its aim and motivation yet completely helpless and powerless to resist that force or to even want to, or to even perceive anything beyond the thick veils of darkness wrapped tightly suffocating its soul at those times.
God had better be big enough to save someone even that far gone or there bes no hope.
You have been bold enough to be frank and honest so daimonizomai will do likewise:FoundInGrace;47671295 said:
Who wants to reap destruction? Moriah does. Frequently, yes, it does. And therein lies a major key to its OWN times of "not wanting to stop". Moriah more often sins as an act of desperation and anguish than for the purpose of "indulging" in some kind of "pleasure". When it bes there in that hellish place it has no pleasure.
However, to balance this picture, just as you said for yourself, Moriah ALSO finds that "there is something more appealing in holiness and purity than in sin" and that it, too, bes poignantly and heart-wrenchingly drawn to goodness and kindness. It bes an absolute sucker for genuine, unfeigned, unconditional love ... just a few drops of the REAL DEAL and you can literally get this poor feral demonised wretch practically on its face at your feet. It bes pathetic like that.
Take that away though, crush its heart with harshness, malignant judgments, condemnations, shame-nailing, force-feeding it toxic things that make it feel forsaken by God, or turn traitor on it, betray it, whatever, and it will quite literally seek blindly and desperately to destroy itself, fully aware that bes its aim and motivation yet completely helpless and powerless to resist that force or to even want to, or to even perceive anything beyond the thick veils of darkness wrapped tightly suffocating its soul at those times.
God had better be big enough to save someone even that far gone or there bes no hope.
