November 4, 2014 Excerpt Lava Flow: A Spiritual Fire? The softness of the spiritual fruit is the liquidity within the flow of lava. Unless that softness is part of our inner life then our passion is nothing more than thrusting rocks at people who burn us up. Imagine a volcano that hurls hot fiery rocks that bombards a community like crashing meteors. There would be devastating destruction without warning as the explosive missiles would cause many, many casualties. Its much preferable to have those hot rocks, or meteors to melt into molten rock. In that event, the lava flow would be slow and predictable to allow people to move into safe areas. In a similar way, there might be times when we feel like we are about ready to erupt into an unfruitful explosion towards situations that irk us. The only thing separating us from unleashing a devastating meteor shower of words and behaviors is the softness of our spiritual fruitfulness to turn our responses into a passionate lava flow. For example, instead of unleashing a barrage of hate, cruelty, and ill-intentions we experience a fiery distaste for uncivil and socially destructive intentions. In fact, that inward flow of heated lava creates an ardent opposition to violence, harshness, and unfruitful aggression. We become inflamed against attitudes that purposely incite pessimism, despair, and evilness through the community. The molten rock of our soul burns with indignation over fatalities induced by dastardly individuals who incite out of control behaviors in others, including instigating quick impulses of anti-social behaviors. Within our inner fire of molten rock flows kindness, goodwill, meekness, gentleness, goodness, joy, self-control, patience, love, peace, faith, and perseverance. The burning lava flow of our soul is a spiritual fire when the softness of the spiritual fruit is in the mix. Eventually, that lava flow will cool to solidify our union with the fruit of the spirit. youtu.be/cbkr_s2urQ4
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:19:10 +0000
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