Let the Clouds Pass Through

Beloved Friend: What do you do when you are feeling so many emotions at once, but don’t know how to deal with one at a time?

Loving Reminder: Let the clouds pass through
All upsetting emotions arise from valuing the voice of the devil in mind, who speaks against God. It can be called the ego. When you value the voice of the enemy in mind and its unloving thoughts that arise in awareness to tempt you into sin—suffering, giving them reality, you then seem to experience the effectual upsetting emotions and fearful perceptions of the world. The wages of sin is death. The price of valuing the voice of the devil is spiritual death—unhappiness.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, your focus on specific causes of upsets seen in the world will be brought back inwards, inwards to the true level of cause: placing value and devotion in the voice of the devil rather than the Voice that Speaks for God—the Holy Spirit. It is an internal shift in value, rather than a change of anything in the world.

If prayerful inquiry with the Holy Spirit is too direct in the moment that these emotions arise, joining with a friend in Christ or Mighty Companion who is willing to hold the space, willing to listen without judgement can be a helpful stepping-stone. Expressing what is on your heart in a non-judgemental environment can be enough to see its falsity and to allow a shift in perception.

The devil wants everything hidden, as this is how the fruits of sin and inner turmoil are maintained, through the sinful self. This is why when people say, “A sin unconfessed only makes us sicker,” it is important to pay attention to. What is kept hidden inside cannot be raised to the Light of Grace. What is kept hidden inside weighs you down, as the weight of the voice of the adversary cannot be exchanged for the lightness of the Spirit.

In Awakening to God, everything arising for you can be all re-seen as coming up to be seen as false and released forever. It is actually a great joy to Heaven. Perfect Love casts out all fear, which means it will flush up anything unlike Itself first. It is okay to feel them as they arise, aware that nothing is really going wrong. While the great deceiver will suggest this as a great retreat, its only purpose is to distract you from God and His fruits. Be steadfast in Him. The Holy Spirit sees everything working out for the good of everyone. Indeed, it is a massive advance.

In this embrace, nothing is repressed and you see that all emotions are not personal. Only by misidentifying with the characteristics of the devil and its false effects do you feel a personal responsibility to them; as if you are the judgemental one, the angry one or the one who needs to provide. These are all but characteristics of one who has “left” God and is now its own God. Being His child, Who is with you, always, these thoughts are not yours.

The Self in Christ does not share the same qualities of the devil and its self of sin. With the Holy Spirit’s Discernment, you gently open to discerning the false from the True, the fruits of the devil from the Fruits of the Spirit.

In any moment when uncomfortable feelings arise, remember that you are not alone. In calmly observing the inner space in non-judgement you realise that you are aware of them but you are not the feeling itself. Looking calmly upon it all with non-judgement, the voice of the devil and its unloving thoughts and resulting emotions can arise and be seen as false. There is no need to get rid of them, no need to fix yourself and no need to try and control them. What is an illusion does not need to be given reality and then rid of or fixed.

Listen to the gentle Voice within, the Guidance of the Holy Spirit that will remind you that the Self you are in Christ always remains unchanged and undisturbed by any thought, emotion or perception of the devil.

This Voice, which is loving and gentle in nature, will show you what is real and what is unreal. It will show you what is eternal and what is temporary, so that you may accept what is unchanging and overlook what is changing. It will show you your true Voice in Him which silences the harsh critic in mind.

This critic and its upsetting emotions are not you. Just like how the sky is aware of all the clouds passing through, the sky’s identity cannot be shrunken down into a substanceless cloud.

Let all the clouds pass through and stay in focused on Him.

You are safe and completely loved.

Love you just as you are,

Dylan