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nce, as an experiment, the great scientist Isaac Newton stared at the image of the sun reflected in a mirror. The brightness burned into his retina, and he suffered temporary blindness. Even after he hid for three days behind closed shutters, still the bright spot would not fade from his vision. "I used all means to divert my imagination from the sun," he writes, "But if I thought upon him I presently saw his picture though I was in the dark." If he had stared a few minutes longer, Newton might have permanently lost all vision. The chemical receptors that govern eyesight cannot withstand the full force of unfiltered sunlight.

There is a parable in Isaac Newton's experiment, and it helps illustrate what the Israelites ultimately learned from the wilderness wanderings. They had attempted to live with the Lord of the Universe visibly present in their midst; but, in the end, out of all the thousands who had so gladly fled Egypt, only two survived God's Presence. If you can barely endure candlelight, how can you gaze at the sun?

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, it consists in thinking as God things, and willing as God wills.

"A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns, they just shine. "
D.L. Moody.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets real thing, it is irresistible.
C.S. Lewis

“Doing what is right.”
Devotion by Don Jíbaro Barbagris:

“Therefore, to him who knows to do good
 and does not do it, to him it is sin.” (James 4:17)

ooner or later, the purity and kindness of our heart comes out timely and unscathed... Neglect of our primal needs for validation and affirmation belongs into a bottomless bucket neglected somewhere in the past. Consequential healing is part of life, thus life goes on within us or without us. Ultimately, when no merit has been affirmed by our peers, this becomes a neglect that has to be discerned and addressed spiritually.

Sadly... our natural brothers cannot comprehend these things because, since have to be discerned and addressed spiritually, they cannot do it... because they are foolishness to them. Country folk are very spiritual, but some who come to the Metrópolis lose that virtue by becoming "natural", ergo, plain as God made them, with no improvement to their souls. Some day the secrets of the heart will surface for us to see all we've done. Good or bad, they'll be scrutinized accordingly. It's called RECKONING.

Subsequently,the spiritual mandate is to that what we KNOW is RIGHT, rather than what we "FEEL" is right. The emotions almost always betray you and thus many of our brothers fall to abismal dismay that leads to tragedy. Your emotions can only be tamed by the Spirit of God.