It's time to clear the religious fog and have a clear view of God's Spirit.
What we already know about the Spirit? Roughly. This is what makes you alive, spiritually. He opposes sin. Has connection with Heavenly Father. He gives us guidance, wisdom, prudence. He is the source of righteousness, love and power. There are also mentions about miracles and extraordinary abilities.
What I understand so far. In Russian language everything has a gender. For me it is natural to say Spirit is he. But I see no gender or personality in the Holy Spirit. God takes care of His creation through laws of physics and nature, evolutionary selection, reflexes and instincts. It is an automatic system of regulations working as a whole to keep the Universe ticking. But for us humans, God dedicated part of Himself - His nature - His Spirit. This is what makes us alive beyond automatisation. “But while the child is little, he exists under supervision of servants and housekeepers as a slave, despite being the heir of everything.” This is how we come to this world. We are unable to understand when we are toddlers. We just rely on instincts to survive - we eat, drink and cry. The Holy Spirit is our guidance soon after we become spiritually alive. And Spirit is life and love of God. This God's love creates Life in us. And when you are alive, you'll be grateful for this biggest treasure in the world. “Sell everything that was valuable to you and get the most valuable pearl.”
When you face the Spirit, you may think he is God, he is so pure and bright. But also you will have a pleasant feeling in your flesh. Flesh thinks that God loves it. That inspiration is a substitute people have to God, because flesh likes to be valuable to the Lord. This is a recipe for false teachers, prophets and messiahs. They all think that God has chosen them because of their leadership skills, talants, intelligence, or else. God demands sacrifice of your flesh, and has no intentions to lift you up. You can't face God before rejecting and killing flesh as it was true for the highest priest in the Jewish Temple before entering the Holy of Holy. No one can come to God without being pure enough. “Highest priest” it is you are, who's under the Holy Spirit’s control. When you are under control of the flesh, you are like a goat. When you hate sin, in despair of being a slave of instincts and have a meek and give up attitude towards God you are like a lamb, ready to be sacrificed. So, reject your feelings and have no opinions before God. Then hold on to God's Spirit. It is easy to choose God over something bad and evil, but harder to give up pleasure and any other sources of joy. But it is easier to understand what God and His Spirit is like, when you reject any good and prioritize only God, as mighty good. This is what it means to reject and deny oneself.
What is God's Spirit like? My first impression was that God Himself is like a silent Wisdom, quiet, gentle, but unbreakable and unbendable. His Words are already spoken. You just need to be very quiet in your heart to hear. Opinions and ideas are too noisy. My second impression is that Spirit is a wordless prayer. Just now I came up with a metaphor - God gave to us part of Himself and this essence is still tied to Him and wants to come back. It's why the Spirit is constantly praying, He’s missing God. Maybe it’s not a metaphor at all. So, the Spirit is not God, not the source of Will and Word, but power of connection, like a magnet force or gravity’s curvature of space and time dragging planets to a star. What I can say, Spirit has no need for inspiration! He has everything from God directly. No need for teachings, food, sex, or games to please him. If you are not alined with The Spirit, or luck of the Spirit you will carry your flesh to church and read scripture to inspire it and convince it not to commit sin, as God won't like it and you will be a bad person.
As soon as you alined with the Spirit, you will start your spiritual journey full of trials. People, colleague's, friends and family members won't understand you. You will skip their entertainments and parties, or will be there staying alone. When there are attacks and arguments, it will be easier to be with God and Spirit, because you will be awake. The worst thing is a routine, when you are losing awareness. There will be work to align your desires and what you want in exchange for your spiritual efforts. Everything will fall off, even desires to have fruits and gifts of the Spirit. Only one motivation in the Spirit - to be connected to God.
You will understand that thinking and talking about God is not the same as being connected to Him, and talk (pray) to Him. What I found, it is essential to constantly seek God. But before, ask and pray for the Spirit. Every day and during the day I aim towards different aspects of the Spirit. Sometimes I'm looking for the Light, sometimes I go toward purity, sometimes I need strength and a sharp blade to cut anything unclean. But usually I perceive the Spirit as a calm deep prayer.
What we already know about the Spirit? Roughly. This is what makes you alive, spiritually. He opposes sin. Has connection with Heavenly Father. He gives us guidance, wisdom, prudence. He is the source of righteousness, love and power. There are also mentions about miracles and extraordinary abilities.
What I understand so far. In Russian language everything has a gender. For me it is natural to say Spirit is he. But I see no gender or personality in the Holy Spirit. God takes care of His creation through laws of physics and nature, evolutionary selection, reflexes and instincts. It is an automatic system of regulations working as a whole to keep the Universe ticking. But for us humans, God dedicated part of Himself - His nature - His Spirit. This is what makes us alive beyond automatisation. “But while the child is little, he exists under supervision of servants and housekeepers as a slave, despite being the heir of everything.” This is how we come to this world. We are unable to understand when we are toddlers. We just rely on instincts to survive - we eat, drink and cry. The Holy Spirit is our guidance soon after we become spiritually alive. And Spirit is life and love of God. This God's love creates Life in us. And when you are alive, you'll be grateful for this biggest treasure in the world. “Sell everything that was valuable to you and get the most valuable pearl.”
When you face the Spirit, you may think he is God, he is so pure and bright. But also you will have a pleasant feeling in your flesh. Flesh thinks that God loves it. That inspiration is a substitute people have to God, because flesh likes to be valuable to the Lord. This is a recipe for false teachers, prophets and messiahs. They all think that God has chosen them because of their leadership skills, talants, intelligence, or else. God demands sacrifice of your flesh, and has no intentions to lift you up. You can't face God before rejecting and killing flesh as it was true for the highest priest in the Jewish Temple before entering the Holy of Holy. No one can come to God without being pure enough. “Highest priest” it is you are, who's under the Holy Spirit’s control. When you are under control of the flesh, you are like a goat. When you hate sin, in despair of being a slave of instincts and have a meek and give up attitude towards God you are like a lamb, ready to be sacrificed. So, reject your feelings and have no opinions before God. Then hold on to God's Spirit. It is easy to choose God over something bad and evil, but harder to give up pleasure and any other sources of joy. But it is easier to understand what God and His Spirit is like, when you reject any good and prioritize only God, as mighty good. This is what it means to reject and deny oneself.
What is God's Spirit like? My first impression was that God Himself is like a silent Wisdom, quiet, gentle, but unbreakable and unbendable. His Words are already spoken. You just need to be very quiet in your heart to hear. Opinions and ideas are too noisy. My second impression is that Spirit is a wordless prayer. Just now I came up with a metaphor - God gave to us part of Himself and this essence is still tied to Him and wants to come back. It's why the Spirit is constantly praying, He’s missing God. Maybe it’s not a metaphor at all. So, the Spirit is not God, not the source of Will and Word, but power of connection, like a magnet force or gravity’s curvature of space and time dragging planets to a star. What I can say, Spirit has no need for inspiration! He has everything from God directly. No need for teachings, food, sex, or games to please him. If you are not alined with The Spirit, or luck of the Spirit you will carry your flesh to church and read scripture to inspire it and convince it not to commit sin, as God won't like it and you will be a bad person.
As soon as you alined with the Spirit, you will start your spiritual journey full of trials. People, colleague's, friends and family members won't understand you. You will skip their entertainments and parties, or will be there staying alone. When there are attacks and arguments, it will be easier to be with God and Spirit, because you will be awake. The worst thing is a routine, when you are losing awareness. There will be work to align your desires and what you want in exchange for your spiritual efforts. Everything will fall off, even desires to have fruits and gifts of the Spirit. Only one motivation in the Spirit - to be connected to God.
You will understand that thinking and talking about God is not the same as being connected to Him, and talk (pray) to Him. What I found, it is essential to constantly seek God. But before, ask and pray for the Spirit. Every day and during the day I aim towards different aspects of the Spirit. Sometimes I'm looking for the Light, sometimes I go toward purity, sometimes I need strength and a sharp blade to cut anything unclean. But usually I perceive the Spirit as a calm deep prayer.
