“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:18
The world is a cover and distraction from the experience of the Peace of God. Everything about this world is designed so that you seek your fulfilment, happiness, peace and love where you will never find it. Thus, you now feel out of sorts with yourself because everything is designed so that the Holy Spirit and the authenticity of one’s Being in Christ take the back seat.
Have you ever felt deep down that there has got to be a better way of doing things? This tickling feeling is the nudge of the Holy Spirit planting a seed through this intuitive feeling.
As one starts to awaken, many disillusionments seem to be experienced. What you once thought to be true is seen as not so. The floor seems to be pulled out in shifting your attention from the level of perception, the world, to the level of mind, the thoughts and beliefs in mind, where sight is experienced.
As one’s attention is brought inwards to mind-watching, observing all of the thoughts and beliefs that arise in mind, one goes through a period of sorting out the mental garbage. This is a discernment between what is the voice of the adversary and what is the Holy Spirit. You can often tell the difference very easily through the way you feel.
We have all heard of the saying that fear stands for False Evidence Appearing Real. This saying provides a good starting point in using what is felt to discern between what is false and what is real. At any moment when you notice any upset, lack of peace, pride, lust, jealousy, addictive tendencies, temptations or any other fruits of the enemy, you can begin to trace these fruits back to the underlying false thoughts and voice of the enemy in mind.
If the great deceiver is providing false evidence that is appearing real, then this provides the ability to look at this evidence with the Light of the Holy Spirit. Here, you can decide if you want to value it any longer. The Holy Spirit will meet the mind where it believes to be and unwind it from the attraction to the enemy through Its Guidance.
What is important during this is that one continues the practice of exposing it, through means such as confession or sharing with someone that can hold that space, along with prayer, insight and growing in Him through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This is a leading into, after sorting the false from the true, disregarding the false altogether. Through the recognition of the complete falsity of the voice of the great deceiver, in which it holds no value what-so-ever, what is True is left shining As It Is.
Initially, this can take vigilance as you are shown what is false and what is true, where the false can be recognised as false and only the true as true. Sight, or seeing the true as true and only the true as true, requires the Light of Clarity of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit sees truly because It is an Extension of Clarity, and, therefore, is Perfect Sight.
The Holy Spirit does not mistake anything that is of the enemy as one’s true Reality, as all aspects of what is false is false!
Just as in a night-time dream, any time fear is experienced, it is certain that the dreamer of the dream is out of accord with itself. It is out of accord with itself because it is seeing what is not real, the dream, as real. The dreamer must be forgetting that it is dreaming, and now, misperceiving the dream as real and of having real consequences and reacting to it.
When you experience a nightmare, what use is there in reacting to everything that is going on, except if you forget that you are dreaming and are actually safe in your bed at home?
Such is the great deceiver: a magician with false appearances, a trickster that speaks against God that one seems to experience as real. Until the prodigal son comes back to his father, he will not be able to distinguish the fruits of the father from the fruits of the world. The belief system of the deceiver uses thoughts, emotions and perceptions to perpetuate itself as being fact, when it is only false evidence appearing real, a dream of separation, chaos and fright.
It only seems frightening because one has forgotten the gloriousness of the sun and its rays behind the storm clouds.
It is here that the Holy Spirit whispers to the mind, guiding you to the remembrance of God. One must begin to bring everything that is unconscious to the Light of the Holy Spirit to be made conscious, before awakening to the Peace of God.
No one scolds their friend for betraying them in a night-time dream. They go and tell them what happened in a light-hearted way, because they know nothing really happened to them while they were sleeping in bed. When you awaken from a nightmare, you experience relief and bubbling light- heartedness that it wasn’t real, that you’ve always been safe.
Such is the Self in Christ. What of the temporal can affect that of the eternal? Praise be to God Who, being beyond the weight and gravity of the voice of the deceiver and its sinful self, unveils a light-hearted Laughter that you want to share with everyone, as witness and testimony to the Power of God.
The Love of God, that radiates like the sun behind the darkened storm clouds, is forever real and worth every effort.
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21
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One Silent Mind 