Restoresmysoul
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very true.
God is a living spirit and we too are to be living with him or nothing matters. theology is only helpful if it brings one closer to God. spiritual practice is only useful if we get closer to God. sometimes spiritual practices don't seem useful to our flesh and so we don't do them unless they give us pleasure but God wants us to be set free from all evils holding us away from him and he wants to make us pure and innocent and perfect. we must be with God in whatever condition that we find ourselves to be in. this does not mean submission to the evils but rather it means clinging to God rather than self in all situations. it is a very high path and high calling but it is either dwell with God or don't, which is the most unthinkable and terrible thing that can be... even though so very often we forget God this is due to the ignorance that most of us have. it ought not to be so. we should be spiritual 24/7 and constantly dying to our fallen nature and clinging to God and dwelling with his grace.
our greatest enemy is ourselves. ourselves are deceived by the devils and dwell in the world and the self/flesh can not know God though it can experience the affects/effects of Gods blessings to us but the flesh ends up taking those things in the wrong way and stumbles. we must die for the Lord because the Lord died for us. there must be nothing between self and God or we will remain in purgatory and in torments. for all I know I killed myself and God has put me in purgatory.
if we are tormented then let us be tormented with God. whatsoever God wills for us, let this be done. "but I do not know what God wills" this is very good because we should die to ourselves and i'm sure the more we deny ourselves ( as God desires we do ) that we shall know the Lords will for he will be with us.
I dont believe in purgatory after death, but purgatory on earth may have merit. I dont know. I just feel trapped in my own hell. I dont like to admit this because people often judge me by it. They think faith should give me perpetual joy and peace, and a "good life now" type prosperity. Perhaps it should, i dont know, all i know is i need the Lord as much as anyone else, and being judged by others only adds to my hell, it doesn't seem charitable, i judge myself enough already, im not sure i need more judges. charity however seems pleasant.
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