Becoming as God Intended

What occurs is a deeper substance about the understanding of the experience of Christian spirituality so that experiences acquire a philosophy, which is necessary to live beliefs that have reason to make sense of life and of personality. In the background of what is happening here is the involvement of God and reason's power. Beliefs otherwise remain only theory or at best loose propositions that aren't squared up, less than possibilities, and remain philosophically distant as an unexperienced psychological event which has not changed the person's life - stuff stuffed into the head - experiences become suspect as psychological head trips going nowhere.

We begin our spiritual life where we're least developed or where we may least expect it!

It appears, however, Christian spirituality baulks, bucks against, resistance is experienced in the being of the believer, if, its own rationalism numbs the soul and consciousness. Perhaps this co-called occupational hazard is evidential when there is less faith however soaked in good old dogma, nonetheless the knowledge and understanding associated with Christian spirituality becomes pedantic.

To be unfree is to be first philosophically primitive, because thinking is simple and narrow, uncomplicated, then it is psychologically crippled, constricted. . .That should tell us biology is not destiny, but becoming as God intended is destiny through freedom given by salvation which means to be at home with our redeemed/saved human nature. Human nature is not the enemy, but how we utilize it.

God never changes personality! Indeed, never will God violate the essence of personality. God will work with the personality we have. Change character and identity, but never ever personality. . .That aspect of our self, our personality, is a constant familiarity, about who we are regardless of changes and maturations.

Soul work is about becoming, that act to become something more or different, than before, because of words and their power. The soul works best with words as power tools.

The search never ends for soul-making because the Christian is an explorer. Diagnostic tools are exploratory tools. Words intensify what needs work, attending to.

Experience produces, positively, a relaxed caution. Experience teaches through the emotion of an event along with the experience of the event to have free feelings, not be psychotic or forced or philosophically primitive. . .But, being relaxed about it indicates advanced learning with wisdom.

If faith is given by God then it can be taken away by God. That makes God into a despot.

To posit faith as a gift is to alter the experience and/or the process of salvation into what it is not, giving something that isn't real. The gift of salvation is first, then faith is cooperating, accepting, which imparts experience. Otherwise, the Christian spiritual experience becomes convoluted, unintelligible, ideas only believed. No wonder the sceptic "thinks" they couldn't have any faith.

We cannot have deeper understanding of Jesus and his teachings with further ideas expressed in the New Testament, other than which correlates to our understanding and depth of faith. Faith will, therefore, be more effective and have a more profound depth for various Christians. The difference depends upon their own understanding, according to Jesus [see Matthew 13: 18-23].

What we have is a future and a style that goes with it. We have a style of Christian spirituality characterized by wisdom, discernment, freedom, standing assured in a relaxed caution gained from experience in the salvation and sanctification process, which means to "rest" (Hebrews 4: 1-3) in God with a guilt free clean conscience. That rest is evidence of a peace with God, then, with one's own self or internal reality and a conscience free of guilt. . .That rest and peace with God deals with the dull burden associated with human nature (which is a freedom, although because of the power of sin to cripple it, does not make it evil as such) and its annoying trouble of trying to be good is, finally removed; feelings of guilt become powerless, or at the very best, manageable. The burden, struggle and effect, of trying too much to be good, and even to be good just enough is, removed. The Christian soon learns that in reality, they give in to Jesus without the need to give up!

Useless guilt, for the Christian can now freely be ignored if it needs to, and not feel guilty because of the confidence (faith) for doing just that. Christian spirituality does not tolerate overindulgence of regret. Furthermore, survivor's guilt isn't in the Christian lexicon.

Christian spirituality is forward looking, not staring backwards.

Therefore without interest, not much spiritual growth nor much intellectual advancement will be achieved. How else is the Christian to know, to acknowledge spiritual growth? It can't be love alone for that is a common denominator amongst Christians of every gradation of maturity. Love levels out.

Interest is open to what is needful for a beneficial style. . .What frequently occurs is such a Christian is bored with the routine of jumping from one experience to another experience with the click of a mouse, and, from religious routines where form diminishes substance. These are the bored again. There must be some interest in the interest attached into what's going on in soul-making, in the style of Christian spirituality as experienced. Asking questions shows interest.

The mere individual becomes a someone by what God has intended for them to be. . .If there can be anything said about Christian spirituality and personal style: a philosophy for deep meaning which pieces together each person's idiosyncratic traits, to function because there has been some sense made of it all. And, the positive aspect is that faith doesn't have to be diminished.