Be patient with yourself if you are not readily curious about other people. There are powerful reasons why you have not been able to protect and develop your natural capacity for curiosity. You will be able to get connected to the source or cause of some of these obstacles as you work with remembering. In the meantime, praise yourself whenever you do notice that you are questioning or wondering about other people’s lives. Life without war is impossible in the natural or supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life. I have stood aside to see the phantom of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story. It will be fresher and better World when it flings off this great burden of stony memories [monuments], which the ages have deemed it a piety to heap on its back. Anything which is not spiritual leads to my loss of wealth, rank, reputation, or happiness; ruin. I must learn to fight against and overcome the things that come against me, and in that way produce the balance of having great reverence for God; pious. Then it becomes a delight to meet opposition. Reverence for God is the balance between my nature and a feeling of profound awe and respect and often love for the laws of God. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

Once based in reality, nothing can tyrannize one. If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith. However, nothing can ever change God or the reality of redemption. Base your faith on that, and you are as eternally secure as God Himself. Once you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you will never be affected with depression, as a mood disorder, about life. We are all experts on ourselves. We know how we perceive the World, how we respond emotionally, how we generally relate to others. Often, however, we do not know we are experts; we do not know what we know. Who we are biologically influences the areas about which we are more aware. So, does our accumulated life experience. Because I am an expert on myself, I will use myself as an example of how one person perceives and responds to the World. I have always had very high energy, physically. I have rapid responses to all forms of stimulation through all of my sense, and my energy level ranges from active to hyper, even with the natural brakes of getting older. My rapid response system means that I feel physical pain and physical pleasure very quickly and intensely. It also means that I have trouble staying still. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5

I have generally heightened awareness of sounds, smells, tactile sensations, visual surroundings, and even taste. The good news about my heightened levels of awareness is that I easily take in so much of what is pleasurable. The bad news is that I am uncomfortably sensitive to negative experiences. At the biological level, for instance, I have a low pain threshold, and a strong negative response to loud noise, bad smells, or unpleasant tastes. Because I am constantly taking on so much of what is happening around me, I am better prepared to see and react to danger than many other people. On the other hand, it is sometimes energetically draining to be so hypervigilant; there are too many ordinary situations where immediate impulse is to rescue, protect, stand my ground, or withdraw into my own world. We must never allow anything to interfere with the consecration of our spiritual power. Consecration (being dedicated to God’s service) is our part; sanctification (being set apart from sin and being made Godly) is God’s part. We must make a deliberate determination to be interested only in what God is interested. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5

It would seem that voluntary human behavior would sometimes be quite unintelligible except in terms of human’s goals or purposes. There are, nevertheless, many experimental psychologist in whose work this idea professedly plays no part whatever and others for whom it is but a derivative concept. This is largely because such investigators have insisted on modeling their science after physics, where the idea of purpose or goal is manifestly out of place. It is also due, however, to a widespread misconception of what a final cause or purpose is supposed to be. If repentance for ill actions calls for mercy, has not repentance for ill intentions a yet higher claim? The only way to become interested in what God is interested in is to make that determination to ask yourself, “is this the kind of thing in which Jesus Christ is interested?” In our nature, there is a provision, alike a marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what one endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. People come nearest unto God in showing mercy and compassion.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

The greatest spiritual blessing we receive is when we come to the knowledge that we are destitute. Until we get there, our Lord is powerless. God can do nothing for us as long as we think we are sufficient in and of ourselves. We must enter into God’s kingdom through the door of destitution. As long as we are “rich,” particularly in the area of pride or independence, God can do nothing for us. The moral law does not consider our weakness as human beings. It simply demands that we be absolutely moral. The moral law never changes, either for the highest of society nor for the weakest in the World. It is enduring and eternally the same. The moral law, ordained by God, does not make itself weak by excusing our shortcomings. It remains absolute for all time and eternity. I have also been shaped by my personal experiences as a child who felt lobed and influenced who I am in all kind of relationships. Everything I am aware of about who I am helps me to understand why I respond to closeness and intimacy in the way I do. Self-awareness at all these levels helps me to know the best ways for me to learn and to make Godly changes in my life. A knight without mercy is dishonored. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5

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