Sunday, March 19, 2023

dark night of the soul pic ok


4 stages of faith
1. Awakening

2.
Pure.. removing the impurities
   Step by step.. God only reveal bit by bit, only how much we can handle

3.
Changed by God's love

4.
Be as close to God as possible
Coming in union with God is our goal



Without the Holy Spirit, it's impossible

Dark night is caused by God to whine us away from the world
To stop us from eating poison (sins), God gave ice cream (blessings).. then God gives us proper food to make us stronger

One night, God takes away the "ice cream".. God does not want us to focus on the blessings and suddenly things tt we like which could not be sinful is taken away from us
   God takes away cos it's stopping us from the "pure love"
      Can we still love God just Him without His blessings

Pic dark night senses
When nothing make sense
Can we still love God even if we feel nothing?

Job 23
Like Job, he loses his family, career, struck with disease in one day even he didn't sin...
   
Job 23 10
Job is going through the dark night of senses


We are to love God and His will and not the consolation

God will have to darken the worldly pleasure we have
Detaching will be painful, hard and challenging

Pic dark night of soul
God withdrew Himself, making Himself so quiet, make His presence very very faint
Can we still love God even if we feel abondoned

Mark 12
Jesus felt abondoned...He still loves His Father enough to do God's will

Pic

Only those we are able to handle, God will do this divine "surgery"

Dark moments is not dark nights
Suffering is not dark nights

We are experiencing dark night when
   We desire for God nv goes away
   There is a grace and perseverance

We must be prepared tt we are willing to let go of things even if they are not bad or sinful
We are too attached to things in the world.. 

Phil 3 10
Don't be afraid of suffering.. suffering lead is to union

Acts 5
There is so much hope when we are suffering.. God can use them and lead us further

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he needed nothing but God alone


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