Having the Holy Spirit really has made me accutely aware of what is of God and what isn't, what is of the light, what isn't, what is love, and what isn't. The Holy Spirit gives us incredible clarity, like someone has turned on the light. Now this is joyous, because truly it is like having the "light" turned on. As we fill up with the Spirit and do the things that make the Spirit large in our lives, we become iluminated, we radiate the light. I remember the week I got baptized, a couple of days later a total stranger came up to me and said "I don't mean to be invasive, but you are soooo beautiful!" then she said "it's not just your looks, it's that you radiate a light that is incredible!" I had seen and experienced this light at church when I was investigating it, and in the members. It was amazing to hear that I too had this light a mere two days after being baptized.
What also happens as we have the Holy Spirit and this light is turned on, we also can become very aware of all the ways we lived outside the light, or lived outside of God's world before we were baptized. I found this happening to me. I remember when I went for my Temple interview our Stake President said something like that. That once we are baptized we can see so clearly that we see the past in a totally different way and can become accutely aware of things that weren't right, the things we did outside the Gospel that were wrong, that hurt us or others. This can cause us some distress. Well he was right.
We really get it; once we are baptized. I found going to the Temple has even upped this even more. It does take us to a much higher place spiritually and then we become even clearer, purer, and more aware of what is right and what is wrong. In a world where right and wrong have become so skewed and it's now a free for all, we can really do things before we are baptized and intake a lot of darkness and feel quite numb about it because we were ignorant to the truth, blinded really. These things are not even unacceptable in society's eyes, what has become normal on TV, in movies, in books and magazines, on the internet are completely outside God's Kingdom, yet because people are so desensitized they don't seem wrong or hurtful to our spirits at all. It's all seen as fine, ok. We are foolishly led.
But the Holy Spirit does turn the light on, both in joy and in spiritual clarity. On one hand it's great not to feel numb, to not to be in denial, and to not be ignorant anymore, but at the same time, healing is needed once you get to the stage of seeing so clearly. This is where Jesus Christ comes in. He is our Saviour and He is the great healer and redeemer. The longer I am in the church, the longer I have the Holy Spirit, the more I grow spiritually, the clearer I get about the Truth, the more I can see why we so desperately need Jesus Christ, to heal, to redeem, to forgive, to restore us to the pure, innocent, happy beings we were when we were born.
So much of our culture really creates layers of hardness, and numbness over all that innocence, purity and happiness. We have become desenstized so we can't feel the pain we are causing our spirits, until we have the Holy Spirit. Thank goodness a way has been made for us, to receive this spiritual clarity through the Holy Spirit, and also the healing and restoration we need through Jesus Christ. I am blessed to be where I am spiritually. I truly do thank God for it.
I am allowing the Savior, Jesus Christ, to wash away all the negatives of my life, past and present, allowing me to live clean, clear, pure, innocent, and shimmering with happiness once again!
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