LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL - Peace to you, all!
I am SO glad these things are resounding with you, dear, dear Zoe (peace to you, my dear sister)! A couple few things, though:
- I am NOT weary, girl! Tired... a bit, yes. Diabetes can do that to you. Unfortunately, my vessel has issues and I'm not good at controlling it in this regard (my lifestyle... and dealing with folks at my job... makes control challenging for me - I need to focus better but forget because my job and pace isn't exactly conducive. Also, the weather had put a damper on my walks, but I got a few in this week, praise JAH!). My SPIRIT, though, is still as a young child - LOLOL!
- When I stated that "it's all downhill..." I meant that in a good way. Not meaning deterioration or decreasing, etc., but ease of journey. No longer a struggle to climb UPhill.. but like an easy run DOWNhill.
As our dear Tec (peace to you, luvee!) reiterated, though, the growth of YOUR faith is wonderful! I cannot tell you how... well, AMAZING... it is to me to see YOUR "zeal" at this level, here and on Quora. Blows me away. You've found your voice as to JAH and Christ!
I need to point out something I'm not sure many here notice, but I certainly have: for every one of you whose love and zeal is, well, unstoppable seems like... did you notice, for yourself as well as others, that the major increase... LEAP, if you ask me... occurred once you ACCEPTED AND USED our dear Lord's TRUE name? I noticed it in every one of you who came to realize that his name absolutely DOES matter and not only began to use it regularly and without fear or hesitation... but CALLED (and STILL call) on it! That's because, as many, even beyond the Apostles, learned... the power is in his name.!
And it's not just knowing the name. The demons know it, yet can't utter it! Why? Because THEIR lips aren't clean! WE, though, have our lips cleansed WHEN we use it (aright) and our entire BODIES... when we "wash" them (our soiled "robes") in his blood! Yet, we can't fully use that name, have tge FREEDOM to... unless and until the Father DRAWS us.
And He doesn't do that until we ask... and approach... in sincerity. Which usually manifests... when our hearts are either overcome with joy... or "broken." "Hot"... or "cold." When our hearts are "lukewarm," though... we may not only be unable to enter (through the Door that he is and into and before the MOST Holy), but may be spewed out if we are "inside."
Which is why it's important to know WHO it is we "love"... and WHY. FEAR... is not love. It is not even a form.of love. Being afraid to disappoint someone is not really fear - it is more of a regard, even respect. And it can accompany love. But as we've all come to know, PERFECT(ED) LOVE... casts ALL FEAR... OUTSIDE.
What fear? ALL fear. Which is why our dear Lord SAID, "Do not be anxious OVER ANYTHING." Because anxiety is a FORM... of FEAR.
And "outside" of where? Outside, dear ones, of the TEMPLE of God. And not just the Holy and MOST Holy - certainly there is no fear in either one. But outside the ENTIRE temple... which temple WE ARE.
Religion teaches fear. On every level. And it has and teaches a FORM of "godly devotion" the power... or energy... of which is FALSE. Negative "power." And so dark, not light... death-dealing, not light-giving. And we all know this. When turn AWAY, though, from the darkness TO the Light... we can SEE our way. And, as it states... the path gets LIGHTER... AND LIGHTER... until the Day... Christ... "dawns."
And it... he... is joyFUL... as we see manifested every single time one turns to him. No threats of fire and brimstone, no Armageddon, no eternal torture. Just... joy... and sight.
Thank you, dear, dear Zoe... and ALL of you who share your zeal for and joy about JAH and Christ. It is a REFRESHMENT to me! Like a cool drink in a dry land! Revigorating! I know we all have challenges to face in our daily lives. Some more than others. But when we focus on US, on ourselves and OUR lives, we not only magnify our anxieties, we do worse: we take our eyes, our gaze, OFF... our dear Lord, the True Copper Serpent.
In looking at HIM, though, we don't have to see only his physical sufferings. True, that can be helpful if we need a gauge ("Well, my situation is bad, yes, but not THAT bad!"). But Why? We KNOW his suffering was worse - he took EVERY infirmity into his body... ON PURPOSE. Because he WANTED to, so that others could be healed. He was rejected by his own freshly kin... until AFTER he died. And HE was hated... FOR NO REASON, even by those he gave HIS life FOR. We know these things and know they were worse than whatever we could endure.
Why look only at them, then? Why look BACK... when he's standing BEFORE us... GLO-RIFIED... and promising to glo-rify US?? REJOICE in looking at HIM, rather than MOURN in looking at ourselves? As dear Zoe has shown, it is the looking at him that makes us rejoice, seeing him... and not looking at ourselves, seeing only ourselves.
Thank you, again, dear Zoe... and you all.
Peace... to you all!
Your servant, sister, and a slave of Christ,
Shel
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