Perhaps, but such freedom as the rewards give.
I am so lucky. I am so elderly that I live with only my art of oil painting and writing a novel. I have outlived all my friends and my family has refused to speak to me even. I can't stand without support, I'm too old. All I have are strangers, a bed, and food. And the Lord. I have complete control of what goes in my mind: no TV or even radio, only my classical discs. It is if someone white washed the world for me. The news on my computer is my only connection to the world. I can live within the love and protection of the world as God created it to be without the pull that fleshly ideas have to grab us our of God's path. Itis as if many of what separated the Lord and me is taken away and I can live in closer communication with Him.
I am so lucky. I am so elderly that I live with only my art of oil painting and writing a novel. I have outlived all my friends and my family has refused to speak to me even. I can't stand without support, I'm too old. All I have are strangers, a bed, and food. And the Lord. I have complete control of what goes in my mind: no TV or even radio, only my classical discs. It is if someone white washed the world for me. The news on my computer is my only connection to the world. I can live within the love and protection of the world as God created it to be without the pull that fleshly ideas have to grab us our of God's path. Itis as if many of what separated the Lord and me is taken away and I can live in closer communication with Him.
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
This "judging of angels", is what one does when picking up one's cross, and denying oneself. Is similiar to "testing the spirits." I can't say what the difference/s are? I just know there are differences! What this does? Is undermines the power of satan and the spirit of anti christ.