Watch for strident feelings in the arena of love

If we are to obey the commandment to "Watch and pray", we must go inside of ourselves and watch our actual processes of feeling and thought. For if we do not understand the arena whereby we must become more loving and with thoughts supportive of that love; then we will "stumble on dark mountains" (Jeremiah 13:16). We will not optimally favor growth in love because of insufficient light.

"Evil spirits [flow] into affections for evil and into falsities, in short, into a person's passions and appetites, and into convictions and principles of falsity, and then hold the person captive" (Spiritual Experiences 4621).

We must watch the beasts and the birds, the feelings and the thoughts, within our platters (our hearts or wills) and our cups (our thoughts or ideation). We must be right there with them in the arena of love and its supportive ideation, the inward world where the Lord says to find the Kingdom of Heaven (Luke 17:21).

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8).

We must notice those days when we are angry at all the world, angry at first one person or class of persons and then another. We must notice recurrent states of strident feelings accompanied by excuses to keep feeding them. If we do not turn on the lights within this inner world, then we will bump into mental furniture.

If we do not turn on the lights within this inner world, then we will stumble on dark mountains. That is not an opinion about the meaning of stumbling on dark mountains. That is a direct and correct application of that verse to growing in love of God and the neighbor in everyday mental and external life. Mountains involve love, good love when upright; and evil love when reversed. Light on such matters such as makes less likely to stumble  is proper spiritual teaching concerning love. 

If we are genuinely Doing what we are Hearing from the living God inside of us and in the Word, then we should be noticing that those angry at all the world days are lessening in intensity! We should be noticing milder grudges, smaller chips on shoulders, more immediately rebuking unclean stridencies.

Beware of strident feelings and their henchmen thoughts. This is where you choose between Heaven and Hell, this sequence of trials provoked by the arrival of the Word taken sincerely by your heart and mind; that flicking switch when the honey in the mouth becomes bitterness in the belly.

Bitterness must be applied to the Passover lamb. And the divine truth called the Son of God came into the womb of Mary, bitterness. "And a sword shall go through your own soul also, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed", said Simeon to Bitterness, to Mary.

If you are genuinely Doing the Word you are Hearing, you should notice bitterness, temptation, flood, trial, fire, water right as these are happening to you and insisting on a response from you; answering the devil with truths from the Word lived out in a loving life.

These are the stones in the quiver. This is the quiver full of sons spoken of in the Psalms. This is the necessary passage through fire and water that we must undergo in order to reach that wealthy place, that Heavenly Canaan within us with the Lord and all that are His.

Watch your feelings good and evil as they roll out their carpets within you. Learn everything you can about them. Watch the feelings which you have when getting riled up about anything whatever.

Watch your thoughts around different feelings, especially the ones that seem like someone ugly has taken over for the day. Learn from the enemies in the flood rather than being trampled by them. Pray to the Lord about all these things you are watching. 

"And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch" (Mark 13:37). 

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