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PRESENCE of Spirit, projection of light, blessedness of presence, Jesus in sight.
Living in the Presence of the
Spirit, projected is light, the fruit of blessedness of presence, where all can
see Jesus in sight.
That’s our Christian ideal. But it
is an ideal. What gets in the way is
a shadow.
A shadow is something that gets in
the way of the light:
APPEARANCE of flesh, breach of shadow,
cursedness of presence, sign of the foe.
One such shadow is a lack of
patience bearing itself as anger, and we’re all prone to it, whether it is
overt, passive-aggressiveness, or it’s bottled up. None of these responses is
healthy. People are deceived to think it’s only overt anger that is harmful.
Passive-aggressiveness gives its user the appearance of control, but at what
cost? It deadens relationships. And to bottle-up anger is a caustic that burns
slowly inside out.
The shadow gets in the way of the
light. Anger gets in the way of patience. And it affects us all.
Anger is the predictive and premature
response of the flesh.
The long game of discipleship is
for the Spirit to show us how our
flesh behaves. Obedience is the curiousness of inquiry in the presence of sin. Only
when we understand how our shadow blocks our light can we put steps into place
to move out of the way of the shadow,
so our light shines unimpeded again.
Where do other shadows turn up covering
the light in our lives; greed for generosity, fear and hate and indifference
and cynicism for love, disappointment and despair for hope.
Our shadow is present in our life
as a sign we need God to overcome so His light can be revealed in us.
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