"God is sovereign and in total control of your life."
"God loves you immensely and unconditionally, even when you sin doing the most embarrassing sins you can imagine."
"God allows everything to happen in your life for your good, even the things that make your soul ache."
Merely grasping these truths with our head through sermons or inductive Bible studies fails to have them penetrate and sink far down into the oceanic depths of our souls.
It takes seemingly harsh trials and hardship-ridden circumstances to create the opportunities to have them deeply etched into our bones.
Just cognitively pondering them to try to impress them into us is like using a ballpoint pen to write something on our skin. The impression of the ink only lasts for a few hours or a few days at most. Then it is gone.
In order for these truths to be permanently carved into our being, it requires something more intense. It requires suffering circumstances where one spiritually bleeds. The Holy Spirit can then use the spiritual blood that has been bled from uniquely characterized hardships as tattoo ink and tattoo the truth of God onto the soul's cornea. This happens as the soul meditates on these truths of God in the uniquely engineered circumstances that God custom tailors to cultivate the growth he desires in his myopic child. Oh, it can be painful like a physical tattoo. But after the operation, it's well worth it and the result is spiritual vision, on an intuitive level, that has innately divine perception in its eyesight. This happens because divine truth has been deeply engraved into the very constitution of the soul's being.
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