When you have an awareness of the Divine your perspective on time changes. Uncertainty can be the cause of a lack of belief in God. In generations past our culture has had more of an awareness of God and lived with more certainty. The bible is not just a story book for the present moment, it contains the past, the present, and the future in it. The Holy Spirit can give us a perspective that holds the past, the present, and the future, and allows us to see God’s whole picture, despite what we may be feeling or experiencing around us or in our lives.
Trials and persecution can make it difficult to see the whole picture, but I believe that it’s a gift of God to live with this perspective. Unbelief can hinder us from “seeing it all” and insecurities and weaknesses can also disable us from living with this certainty. Also the fear of death, or impending doom, can erase God’s perspective of the future, because our minds get clouded with fear, and we are not able to perceive reality properly.
However, with the Holy Spirit’s help we can be aware of the future that God has planned for all of His children, and can live with more certainty in the world, and this present age. This perspective has to be awakened by basic biblical knowledge about God, God’s plan of salvation, and the knowledge of good and evil, the epic battle between Satan and God for the salvation of souls. When our minds and imagination is awakened this way, God’s perspective on reality begins to take shape in our minds. When we teach children about God, Jesus, and the bible, children can grow up with an awakened spiritual consciousness, that can only be removed by their free choice to reject God as an adult.
However, I believe this consciousness can be awakened at any age, the moment anyone chooses to believe in God, and put their faith in Him, spiritual consciousness or awareness is awakened by the Holy Spirit, who comes to live inside us. This is Mike.
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