While tempted He didn’t respond from emotional crisis mode. An inward turning of the soul to the spirit within. I believe the only outcome Jesus had from the wilderness was a laid down soul. Fasting brings out what might be hidden in the soul. Secondly, He was tempted in the wilderness. Think about it? Why did Jesus go into the desert to fast for 40 days? The first point is the Spirit led Him into the desert. Doing those things to see a specific outcome is from a place of religion and not from rest. I know some of you might say those rituals worked, that is amazing. While we indeed cause more turmoil on ourselves by doing these rituals with very little to no outcome. E.g., ever fasted, prayed, interceded for copious amounts of time and nothing happened? Your frustration rises because why will God not deliver you from your torture. Some might try to get out of what life has dealt them, but they will do it with the religious rituals that provide little to no outcome. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls. “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. However, scripture is clear on this matter. But there can be no light without the dark. We are taught to run away from everything dark and only toward the light. Or they are too afraid to sit in the darkness. They believe this is the life handed to them, and the burden they should carry all their lives. However, they never push past it into a place of rest. I believe many experienced the turmoil of the soul. Every time the soul would wander through life’s doings, she would pull herself inward again. Guyon would hold space for her soul to gently move back into the stillness of no thought. ![]() The depth of the union with God will depend on how much you yield to your heart. Madame Guyon felt like it would be a continuous road, of turning the soul inward to meet Divine Union with God. All is stark and clear, and God makes my soul know and think what pleases Him, and there are no more strange images to trouble my mind.” Madame GuyonĮveryone will go through this phase in different lengths of time or even depths if they allow it. I have no more perplexity or uneasiness, nor am I occupied with memories. ![]() The imagination, formerly so restless, now no more troubles me. Sometimes I was surprised to find that there appeared not one thought. “Before, it was as though God were enclosed within me and I was united with Him in my inmost soul, but afterward it was as though I were absorbed into the sea itself. This state of union with God goes beyond the soul, (mind, will, and emotions), into God. She passed through three different stages of remembering, God was with her, to God was in her, to a state of Union. She was the first mystic that touched my soul, understanding my inner cry. I learned so much about this path from Madame Guyon. ![]() The transition from the frustration of the outer world to the divine love of the inward feast. Mystics like Madame Guyon, Teresa of Avila, and John of the Cross call this the Dark Night of the Soul. If I understood that it was not a period of limbo but transition I might have moved through it with a different view point and achieved it much quicker. I wanted God to transition me from how I saw myself to who He created me to be. I did not understand the fullness of what I was asking. All I wanted was to grow in God and be so full of Him that nothing else would matter. What I did not know at the time was it was soul transitioning and not frustration. You do not have to go through an 8-year cycle of frustration. Transition into divine Unionĭo not worry. Every kind of emotion and thought would rise while trying to work it out yourself to move one step. The buildup of frustration would be so bad that the soul feels like it’s going to explode. Trust me, I’ve been where you are, 8 years to be exact. You cannot move forward and to go backward is not an option.
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