We seek still more spiritual growth not for the knowledge but for the experience...to experience the Father within/without. (BFO of 10/10/13)
As we have learned, Truth must be proved. Proving Truth is a long haul but, minus the experience of the Father (which is what proving Truth is all about), we're left agreeing with, memorizing and parroting the printed word and that's pretty much it.
If we do not experience Truth, but only repeat that which we hope to be Truth, we are unknowingly seeking still more magic thinking.
Magic thinking is treacherous on the rare occasion when it plays true. Then, when it gives us what we want, it is akin to lighting in a bottle or a one-trick pony. And that's the seduction of our ego that allows us to believe we can rely on it. After all, it came through for us...once. The particular treachery is that it never bears God's authentic fruit.
We know God's authentic fruit when we hold our nose and take a leap of faith...and don't get what we were leaping for. Then, somewhere, sometime down the pike, we find what we got is indescribably, infinitely...and spiritually...superior to what we originally wanted: There can be no question, no quibbling...this is God's Truth.
God's authentic fruit is the proof of Truth.
Thank you.
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