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Sometimes a believer finds that they are not happy/content/ or satisfied within their heart for a while.
This didnt happen to them overnight, but rather it happened over time, gradually.
One day they realized that they have not felt peace or contentment, or hope,.... in a while.
So what happened. >>>> ???
Well, often its a very simple situation. Common... And this is.... that you are a person of real faith who really committed to Jesus at one point. You were all in...totally offered, totally submitted, devoted, sold out.
And when you were this, this is the REAL YOU, this is your NEW IDENTITY "In Christ".. = you came to live within a born again place in God, secure within a shelter and foundation in Christ that removed you pretty much from the world. This was and is your "spiritual first love", as that is how it feels when you are in that place of submission and heart willingness.
Secure in hope and filled with peace.
There was that time when all that mattered was Jesus. He was not just a name to you, or a distant figure on The Cross, but He had become your wholeness, your inner completeness, your daily joy.
But now, you dont find this to be who you are, anymore. You feel so different. So, its time that you go back to who you really are,.... who you are remade to be by the Father thru Christ.
So, simply, the problem is....once you have tasted the goodness of God, (born again) and have known this complete inner sense of wellness & of wholeness ...then if you slip away from this spiritual faith walk position, you will eventually really miss it.
Understand....that once you are no longer living and walking in the Light, then you are living in the dark, tho still born again.... and when you are there you won't realize what has happened to you, until you DO realize it.
See, spiritual darkness is a veil over your mind, and because it veils gradually, you really don't notice it as you enter into more and more of the darkness that is to become more and more carnally minded.
And when you are truly back into the dark, you start trying to fill your "Jesus void" with stuff...with activities, with TV, with everything that the eye can find to want to do.
And when your inner diet becomes completely again all that the world has to offer you, you will eventually, if you are a true child of God, find yourself feeling empty, lifeless, unhappy, Joyless. As all these feelings are the carnal corrupt fruit of the inner man, when the inner man is feeding on the diet the dark world offers.
Saint, the world offers you 3 feelings.
1.) Fleshy carnal fleeting happiness. 2.) A complete lack of satisfaction. 3.) And absolutely no contentment. Do you feel any of this, or all of this? ??
Jesus is the opposite of all those, and what He imparts into you is not only the remedy for those negative dark discontented desperate feelings, but a God created Joy and Wholeness and Wellness that fills your inner man that the world does not understand and can never provide.
Jesus said He gives you peace the world cannot give....
Jesus gives you HIS Peace..."that passes all understanding".
WE the born again are referred to as a "peculiar people", (in some NT versions) and that is how the world SEES us, because we do not live for the world, yet, we live in it.
So, to the unbeliever, this is odd, this is not "normal" regarding their carnal POV.
So, if you are connecting with what im saying right now, then that is what has happened or is happening to you, IF.. you are the one who is hearing me right now.
Saint..... to remedy this situation, to DEPART from this dark place that you are become inside yourself, you have to realize that you are not who you are in there.... and that is why you can't find the peace you want in your heart for a while now.
The real peace you want is found and is kept when you are back to who you are, back to the place of endless wholeness and joy.....back to the loving arms and tender care of Jesus. Back to "first love". And you cannot ever again be satisfied or content with anything less. And when you try, you will always feel empty and you will always feel wrong.
Go home....
Jesus is the Light, and He leaves it on for you all the time.
God is your Home.
Its where you belong now and forever, and He is where you truly exist, as "ONE" with God and Christ.
If you are away from God, go Home.
Sometimes a believer finds that they are not happy/content/ or satisfied within their heart for a while.
This didnt happen to them overnight, but rather it happened over time, gradually.
One day they realized that they have not felt peace or contentment, or hope,.... in a while.
So what happened. >>>> ???
Well, often its a very simple situation. Common... And this is.... that you are a person of real faith who really committed to Jesus at one point. You were all in...totally offered, totally submitted, devoted, sold out.
And when you were this, this is the REAL YOU, this is your NEW IDENTITY "In Christ".. = you came to live within a born again place in God, secure within a shelter and foundation in Christ that removed you pretty much from the world. This was and is your "spiritual first love", as that is how it feels when you are in that place of submission and heart willingness.
Secure in hope and filled with peace.
There was that time when all that mattered was Jesus. He was not just a name to you, or a distant figure on The Cross, but He had become your wholeness, your inner completeness, your daily joy.
But now, you dont find this to be who you are, anymore. You feel so different. So, its time that you go back to who you really are,.... who you are remade to be by the Father thru Christ.
So, simply, the problem is....once you have tasted the goodness of God, (born again) and have known this complete inner sense of wellness & of wholeness ...then if you slip away from this spiritual faith walk position, you will eventually really miss it.
Understand....that once you are no longer living and walking in the Light, then you are living in the dark, tho still born again.... and when you are there you won't realize what has happened to you, until you DO realize it.
See, spiritual darkness is a veil over your mind, and because it veils gradually, you really don't notice it as you enter into more and more of the darkness that is to become more and more carnally minded.
And when you are truly back into the dark, you start trying to fill your "Jesus void" with stuff...with activities, with TV, with everything that the eye can find to want to do.
And when your inner diet becomes completely again all that the world has to offer you, you will eventually, if you are a true child of God, find yourself feeling empty, lifeless, unhappy, Joyless. As all these feelings are the carnal corrupt fruit of the inner man, when the inner man is feeding on the diet the dark world offers.
Saint, the world offers you 3 feelings.
1.) Fleshy carnal fleeting happiness. 2.) A complete lack of satisfaction. 3.) And absolutely no contentment. Do you feel any of this, or all of this? ??
Jesus is the opposite of all those, and what He imparts into you is not only the remedy for those negative dark discontented desperate feelings, but a God created Joy and Wholeness and Wellness that fills your inner man that the world does not understand and can never provide.
Jesus said He gives you peace the world cannot give....
Jesus gives you HIS Peace..."that passes all understanding".
WE the born again are referred to as a "peculiar people", (in some NT versions) and that is how the world SEES us, because we do not live for the world, yet, we live in it.
So, to the unbeliever, this is odd, this is not "normal" regarding their carnal POV.
So, if you are connecting with what im saying right now, then that is what has happened or is happening to you, IF.. you are the one who is hearing me right now.
Saint..... to remedy this situation, to DEPART from this dark place that you are become inside yourself, you have to realize that you are not who you are in there.... and that is why you can't find the peace you want in your heart for a while now.
The real peace you want is found and is kept when you are back to who you are, back to the place of endless wholeness and joy.....back to the loving arms and tender care of Jesus. Back to "first love". And you cannot ever again be satisfied or content with anything less. And when you try, you will always feel empty and you will always feel wrong.
Go home....
Jesus is the Light, and He leaves it on for you all the time.
God is your Home.
Its where you belong now and forever, and He is where you truly exist, as "ONE" with God and Christ.
If you are away from God, go Home.
