Re: Im going to speak as an ocean nymph

[Ignore the title, this is from an email exchange. Some Fourthway terminology used.]

In other words, we live in the present as if we are in the heavenlies now. That is eschatological NOW presence. And that is biblical. We have to be self-motivated too, which is difficult. Much easier to be externally-motivated. Conscious shocks themselves are self-motivated, i.e. not mechanical, like breathing, and not coming from an external source. When I read Shakespeare in 2002 that was self-motivated. When I read tax forms in January of this year that was externally-motivated. That was life poking a stick at me getting me to do something I had to do.

Before, in our old nature, we lived in the Kingdom of Satan with no effort at all. Asleep, in Imaginary 'I', going with the flow. Quickened, we become alive, awakened, alert, in the Kingdom of God, though still in the flesh, so there is degree and waxing and waning of our alertness (and valuation for being in the Kingdom of God).

You don't want to slip back into molasses and disinterest and lack of valuation for what can only be seen as the ultimate greatest thing that can ever be, glorification, heaven, where the horses are swift (and may fly), and the castles and estates are grand and sunny, and angels are all about tending to your royalty, and all are royal to some degree or another, and all have everything that God has, and where the drama and heat of moving up in level of being replaces the drama and contention of good vs. evil, and where up is limitless because God's level is limitless above us. - C.