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Can we see God in this life already?

16 Wednesday Sep 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Born Again, Dying to Self, Entering the Promised Land, Fellowship, Fellowship with God, Following Jesus, Holy Spirit, Living in the Presence of God, Power of His Resurrection, Seeing God, Spiritual Sight, The Glory of God, The Kingdom of God

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SEEING GOD means a shift in perspective... ;-) (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

SEEING GOD means a shift in perspective… 😉
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

It seems to me that there are at least five different stages of perceiving the presence of God. Our perception, or even sight of Him, increases and improves when we have reached the next stage. All happens by the grace o God, of course. What I did not include here are dreams and visions which are something that can happen anytime whether we find our selves in stage 1, 2, 3, or 4. However, they are not as important as being led by God continuously. In fact, from my own experience I know that an immense amount of dreams and visions have their origin in the dark realm of Satan who loves to appear as the Angel of Light. Stage 5, finally, is the fully enlightened and perfected saint who can see God directly and does not need dreams or visions any longer (regarding dreams and visions I was just paraphrasing John of the Cross). Here is my biblical approach on these five various, progressively blessed conditions of heart, mind, and soul.

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Can God Heal?

09 Wednesday Sep 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Born Again, Being Set Free, Dying to Self, Faith, Following Jesus, Healing, Power of His Resurrection, Psychology, The Dark Night of the Soul, Trusting God

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Crooked trees after being pruned... not that beautiful yet ;-)  (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Crooked trees after being pruned… not that beautiful yet 😉
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Now this is a silly question, Susanne! Through the whole Bible we find witnesses who were healed by God, especially in the New Testament. “Yes… but today?” Having been tortured by many sicknesses all my life, my faith in being healed by God is not the strongest, as I need to honestly admit. However, I have had a few healing experiences during the last year which caused my mustard seed faith to increase a bit. 😉
Apropos Bible, I was just thinking of the situation where Jesus healed a certain woman who had been sick for a very long time. Let’s take a closer look at that special event.

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Light Casts a Spell on Everything

01 Tuesday Sep 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Christian Living, Fellowship with God, Light and Darkness, Living in the Presence of God, My Spiritual Diary, Relax and Chill Out, Seeking God, Spiritual Sight, Suffering and Joy, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Spirit, Wisdom

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"Moonlight reflecting across the ocean" (Wallpaper)

“Moonlight reflecting across the ocean” (Wallpaper)

If we were to live in the darkness 24/7, our lives would look much differently. Not only that they were much shorter because of the lack of sunlight and the lack of its positive consequences on our body and soul. Also, our whole environment and surroundings were not that beautiful, I assume. Recently, I was reminded of what I just described when I compared two situations on different days with one another. The other day I was swimming in a lake when there was no sun but only dark gray clouds in the sky. The water did not look that inviting; it was rather obscure, shadowy, and opaque. As soon as “something” touched my legs in the deep water, it made me shudder. 😛

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The End of Illusions or… Should We Trust Anyone?

28 Friday Aug 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Eternal Life, Faith, Following Jesus, Holiness, Maturity, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Spirit, Trusting God, Wisdom

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Jesus did not commit Himself to them…, for He knew what was in man. —John 2:24-25 (Picture taken from http://utmost.org/the-teaching-of-disillusionment/)

Jesus did not commit Himself to them…, for He knew what was in man. —John 2:24-25
(Picture taken from http://utmost.org/the-teaching-of-disillusionment/)

Before God makes us permanent partakers of His divine nature who have been enabled to already enjoy eternal life in their spirits while living on this earth, He puts us through severe acid soapsuds that rob us of all illusion, both of what we thought we were and of what we might have seen in others. I am speaking of being stripped off from the ability to ever put man on a pedestal any more. Eventually, we see that, truly, only ONE is good, that is, our Father who is in Heaven.

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Who wants to experience the final death of self aka “Mystic Death”?

11 Tuesday Aug 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Born Again, Christian Mystics, Dying to Self, Entering His Rest, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Maturity, My Spiritual Diary, Mysticism, Psychology, Sanctification, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Spirit, Trusting God

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Clouds obscuring the Source of Light (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Clouds Obscuring the Source of Light
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If there was another way to encounter the Living God and to stay in His holy and pure presence 24/7 here on earth and eternally too, I would have immediately said, “No, thank you, I am content as it is, no more death in my life needed.” Well, having been plunged into the second part of the dark night of the soul, the dark night of the spirit, in fall 2013, yet without interruption only one year ago, I today gave in after so many struggles with and against God since I saw it makes no sense to pray to God that I might have it my own way any longer. That means, if this death will continue to last for years in which I neither have any interest in God nor in spiritual things and in which God gives me more and more sickness and pain, then so be it. Period.

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The Crisis from Death to Life

09 Thursday Jul 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Dying to Self, Encouragement, Exhortation, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Following Jesus, Light and Darkness, Maturity, New Self, Old Self, Power of His Resurrection, Suffering and Joy, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Spirit, The Valley of the Shadow of Death

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Jesus: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Jesus: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

This life on earth provides joys and pains for everyone, whether we believe in God or not. However, if God has chosen to adopt us as His beloved children, we will experience an additional kind of suffering this world will never know. These pains that spring from taking up our cross daily in order to die to self are by no means an end in itself. As painful as such periods are, there is a goal ahead to which God will surely bring us.
As I was sitting at the hairdresser this morning, I would read several entries on “Dying to Self” on the internet. It dawned on me that only those who experienced such a process were really inclined to write more detailed about it. Or to put if more humorously as A.W. Tozer did,

“Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.”

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Some Comfort when Confronted with Death

29 Monday Jun 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Death, Dying to Self, Following Jesus, Light and Darkness, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Dark Night of the Spirit, The Valley of the Shadow of Death

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Covered under His Wings...  (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Covered under His Wings…
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

The following Scripture both refers to the believer who faces physical death as it refers to the one who was chosen by God to walk through that same valley while He is still alive on earth.

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” (Ps 23:4 KJV)

Jesus confirmed those two different possibilities of dying when He answered Martha,

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (Jn 11:25-26 ESV)

Although I am aware of the fact that most expositions on the latter verse where Jesus mentioned the one who lived believing in Him that should never die point to the second death (which is eternal), I believe that Jesus also pointed out the possiblity to enter His kingdom while still living in this world.

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God’s Love vs. human love

14 Saturday Mar 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Dying to Self, Ecstasy, Encouragement, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Following Jesus, God's Love, Maturity, New Self, Old Self, Power of His Resurrection, Sanctification, Suffering and Joy, The Dark Night of the Soul

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His Love is Stronger than Death... (Picture taken from http://guardthedoor.com/day-8-love-is-not-jealous/)

His Love is Stronger than Death…
(Picture taken from http://guardthedoor.com/day-8-love-is-not-jealous/)

Am I able to love like God loves? No, never, and that won’t ever change. But I do know as soon as my old self has been completely died, I can.
How is that possible? The only hindrance to let God’s love fully flow through us and from us to others is the old Adam, the one who has not yet given up on trying to do God’s work, the one who has not yet stricken his colors and given into that painful process of dying to self whatever the cost. I do admit that cutting heart pains day and night are not fun, really. 😦 Yet Jesus didn’t promise us that circumcision of the heart by pruning our old and worthless branches would be all joy and pleasure. Instead, He called sanctification “the narrow way to life” which only a few were able to find during their lifetime. Our goal should be the one the apostle Paul by grace had already achieved as he described here,

“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Gal 2:20 ESV)

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Different (st)ages of spiritual growth

25 Wednesday Feb 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Christian Mystics, Dying to Self, Fellowship of His Sufferings, Light and Darkness, Maturity, New Self, Old Self, Power of His Resurrection, The Dark Night of the Soul

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Baptism in the Holy Spirit, being born again, following Jesus, God's love, John of the Cross, John Tauler, justification, sanctification, spiritual maturity, Taylor Marshall, the dark night of the soul, the dark night of the spirit, the new self, the old self

On A Walk In The Evening - Südstadtpark Fürth  (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

On a walk in the evening – Südstadtpark Fürth
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

It has been quite some time since I have wanted to deepen the issue of “The Dark Night of the Soul”, yet I did not know how to tackle that task which is anything but easy. Due to the fact that I can only write about what I know AND have already experienced, I have had to go through very deep and extremely painful valleys of dying to self recently so that I began to see more clearly what particularly the second part of the dark night is all about. Continue reading →

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