Posted by Lou Pilder on April 20, 2016, at 20:14:37
In reply to Re: the spirit of Truth, posted by Tabitha on April 20, 2016, at 13:39:22
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> > I have come here to bring The Spirit of Truth to you. When you receive that Spirit, your mind will be opened to the truth [...]
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> It is interesting to see the phrase "The Spirit of Truth". I have been struggling with depression for probably 40 years now, and I have just recently realized that I repeatedly start feeling like I have discovered some great Truth. It's always a dark truth, something that makes all human society or human life itself seem fundamentally flawed and horrible. Signs of the dark truth are suddenly everywhere, such that I can't escape it. I am convinced that the Truth was always there but I was blind to it. I spend time going over my entire history, seeing evidence of the Truth all along. I re-write my personal history to include the Truth.
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> For a while the Truth is actually comforting, despite also being a horrible revelation. It just feels good to finally see the Truth. It is a feeling of power and discernment. It even feels sort of good to be alone with the Truth, because it makes me special and wiser than others. But, eventually I'm overtaken by such a horrible depression that I am driven to get my treatment back in order.
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> As the depression lifts, the Truth fades away. It just no longer seems true. I realize that my Truth was an interpretation of events, and there are many alternate interpretations. I'm usually embarrassed that I believed my Truth, and sorry if I spoke out of it or acted out of it. I'm also glad to be free of the Truth, since it was so dark and horrible.
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> Yet, when it begins, the sense that the Truth is *true* is so compelling that it fools me over and over.
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> I have decided to try very hard to see a growing sense of new Truth as a symptom of depression. It frightens me though, because it's so humbling to recognize that my Truth-detector is faulty, and that I'm susceptible to distorted beliefs. Also because I'm afraid I will fail, and be sucked into believing more distorted Truths.Tabitha,
The Spirit of Truth can come into you to dwell in your heart. This is a new Spirit outside of your natural reasoning that does not know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. This Spirit enables you to overcome addiction and depression.
When the Spirit indwells you, the mysteries that are to those that have not had the Spirit come into their hearts are revealed to you.
And in the encounter with the Rider on the white horse, He said to me, "It is given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to those that reject the Spirit, it is not given. For the Word is a seed that falls on the hearts of men and if the heart is wicked, the seed can not grow, as they hear the Word and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of the world chokes the Word."
Lou
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