Our home is elsewhere

This physical world is a cycle of death and renewal, ever adapting, growing strength while abandoning weakness. We were born of it, but spiritually, we have abandoned it, and it, us. 

 The children of the world however are still of the conscience of the world. They are driven to survive, to adapt, to overcome. Spiritually, the children of the world consider life as a resource, which identifies them as their own god. Their path is not our path.

So when they ask us for something, we give it freely and offer more. This body, this form, is not ours, it belongs here. And when our spirit is gathered up, our form remains in the world. We submit ourselves to their authority, as a foreigner would in the land.

Our path is very specific, our former destinies have been set aside. Our ambitions and legacy we set at the foot of the cross. Nothing of the world should remain in us. But in reality, there are very few, who have been able to remain in a form that opposes them, in a world which rejects them. Our faith based life is not meant to moralize, or subject people. We are simply meant to persevere, submit to their authority, and remain in the Son until we are called home. -

I struggle with this. My flesh is on fire, my mind and heart are fierce with a desire to see the morality I was grown in, prosper and be justified. I want to fight, for what my upbringing says is 'good'.

But that is my will, isn't it.

This is why our Christian morality was an error. This is why almost two thousand years has past, and the fire of faith was never lit. Because religious morality is a human development, founded on the will of the self righteous. Those who could not concede, those who would not see that their home, is elsewhere. Let these words sink deeply into you, and may the Holy Spirit rise up to meet them. The fire of faith starts here.