stunnedbygrace
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So, I would expect that "walking in the Spirit" would be living in this altered state of consciousness for an extended period of time,
I believe so. And I believe running the race of trust has a lot of stumbling in that trust and getting back up and beginning to trust again, going more and more extended periods of time without stumbling, you develop more endurance of trust. I don’t know what then happens with others but with me there came a time where I said, but…trust is not enough because now I see I lack love. I only love as the world loves and I can’t help anyone in that state. I think it was the very next day that my passions were put in subjection to…well, I find I can’t explain what they were put in subjection to…they just didn’t harass me any more. Maybe it was my outer man of flesh being put in subjection to my inner man? Yes, I think so…
At first I struggled to trust, but I did so in a fatalistic way, meeting every hard thing He sent to me with great distaste, with an attitude of, He is very hard and will never stop beating me or let me catch my breath even. But then He would occasionally let me see some good He had wrought and would give me a time of…refreshing. That took me out of the morose and fatalistic state because it stirred up great hope when I saw the good He was doing for me. So there was trust, and hope, then one day, the realization that I lacked love. So I then understood, these three things remain, trust, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.
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