I don’t know. I think God has to take you there. But if you’re asking, how do I get God to take me there, I haven’t the foggiest idea. I think it’s when, and if, we are ready to bear it and when, and if, we can be trusted. I don’t think few find it because God is stingy. I think it’s because it’s better to be a live dog than a dead dog.
I'm just asking how you think it happens. Here's my reason. If God takes you into holiness, and in holiness, all you do is righteousness, then what would be the thing that could take you out of holiness?
Myself, I think this is the way all men are inteded to live, walking in the Spirit by faith in Jesus, having reconciled us to God, and empowered us by His Spirit, without sin.
I realize about the different walk you are talking about, but I have some different understandings of what that is about.
When God took me there, there wasn't any question of whether I would do right, of course I did, (subject to the reality that I'm not the fit judge, but my conscience was completely clean for the duration. There was no effort, nothing. No risk of mistep. Nothing to distrust. The Spirit was preventing anything from flesh, as I saw it.
But it wasn't until that ended that I then committed sin. His power kept me from sin. I never went against that. No thought about it. But I could tell the very moment it ended, just as I could tell the very moment it began.
I think God takes us there for His Own reasons, and we don't choose. We don't convince Him, we don't qualify ourselves, nothing like that. Just my opinion, mind you! When God knows it's right for us, it's what He does.
My personal opinion was that God was showing me something that would carry me through some extremely difficult times, as well as showing me the target. But then He returned me to my former state, because, again, my opinion only, because there is no merit living that way. It's not by faith, it's by His power. We want growth, we want fruit, we want reward, that comes by living by faith, by our own decision to believe Him even when everything is against us.
Just being borne along through life carried by the wind of the Spirit sounds nice, easy breezy, it's not about just being at the destination, it's about how we get there, and I think God intends for us to be active participants, to get the maximum benefit.
I actually think that what God did with me was remedial. If I were more developed spiritually, I wouldn't need it, I'd already believe at that level. I think God was helping me to recover, that much of my life is recovery from the destruction of me that was needed so I'd not become self-reliant, and not be saved. That to save me He had to near destroy me, but He is faithful, and I love Him!
Much love!