Franktalk wrote:I have met about a dozen people in my life I would say walk in the spirit. Many more seek this condition yet are not there. But the vast majority of people are not on a path of spirituality. They can still love God and be very good people. Some hold high office in the church. They can still be good people. Yet they are spiritually blind. It is not sinful to be spiritually blinded. Some even cross back and forth from one day to the next. Peter is a classic example.
When I speak of spiritual things (which are rare) I am always careful not to give details because many things discerned spiritually are very difficult to understand and place in proper context. I do however speak a lot about the spiritual journey. I hope that one day something I say will cause someone to start and take that same path. It is not me that will change that person but God. I am but a tool in His hands. I do not know exactly what He expects of me as His servant but I am always ready to do His will.
I started down this path which you describe in terms and in desires that were true in my heart and familiar to the "eye's to see and ears to hear" that I sought for, and felt had achieved to fairly acute levels. My path was via the Temple and lasted for 8 years, two shifts a week, always in a 24 hour fast, being tutored, as it were by a few, like this dozen mentioned in your life, most of who were in their seventies, and had worked in the temple for 20 plus years.
My approach to the path was as if one on a quest, which quest led to the most painful experience in my life. I guess that like in the movie Indian Jones … somewhere along that path "I choose poorly"
Eight years of Thursday and Friday nights away from my wife and children, on a fool's quest.