Pride, humility & Discernment (part 2 from: "Hatching")
Part 2 of 4 from the "Hatching" series
Part 2 of 4
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Context
This dive started a little differently. The dive had begun late at night, I rode a griffin as he flew and eventually fell asleep on his back. Soon sleep overtook the rest of my body and I was asleep in both realms. Later I awoke to find myself in heaven with Jesus…
Pride, Humility & Discernment
I began walking alongside Jesus. There was a brilliant light behind us and he turned toward it. He then began to walk into it, beckoning me to follow. All I could see, aside from Jesus himself, was the white of the light which seemed like thick, bright fog.
Then he began speaking to me, “People desire to be important: to contribute something meaningful. This is where ego sometimes invades. This is why people who are egotistical often try to make something into more than what it is. They complicate it and add a flourish (I am not speaking of artistic flare,) in order to make their contribution ‘fancy’ and aloof, rather than simple. This is where humility comes in, when I came to earth I provided simple solutions to problems. One must be humble and secure in order to offer a simple but effective solution. Often these people make a little less of their contribution than what it is, as opposed to the aforementioned people.
The kingdom is a place of simple solutions, but it is also a place of exquisite beauty and artistry. These are two things you do not often see combined: minimalism and highly skilled artistry. Many things in this world have been divorced which were born to be together.”
“Does one really need a visually stimulating home with lots of pretty things, when they have a home with wood paneled walls carved in an exquisite mural? No, they don’t. But because one is often devoid of the other (either minimalism or artistry) the pendulum swings.”
“The way to stop the pendulum from swinging;
from conservative to liberal and back again,
from masculine to feminine,
from pretty and superficial to something of substance and function,
the way one stills such a pendulum is to realize what two things were meant to be married and have now been divorced.
These things have often been placed into a stew of unrelated things.
“See, when I said that Satan is the father of lies, it means that he is highly skilled at telling half-truths. What does this mean?”
“It means he {Satan} takes the truth and hews off a splinter of it, then he binds it with other things with which it does not belong and presents it to the world. This is why dividing correctly, or the skill of discernment, is so critical for those of the kingdom. It is the fundamental of what we do, for without it you will fall for the enemy’s tricks yourself and will liberate no one and accomplish nothing.”
“Now, pay attention here for the work of Satan is to split off, but it is also to combine things that ought not be together. This second thing is an unknown component of his work, in fact one could rightly say that it is his artistic signature and he signs all of his work with it. You can always identify an artist by his work, and many think I am the only one who signs my paintings. Not so, for Satan desires to be the master artist like me, and so he too signs all of his creations with a flourish. For he longs to be credited for his work and worshiped. To be worshiped is not the same as being honored for good work.”
“See how Satan too makes contributions (bad ones) and tries to make more of them than what they are, desiring false (meaning undeserved) praise. For that is what the phrase ‘false praise’ means, let no one tell you otherwise.”
“This then is pride: desiring undeserved praise. Yet humility is not wrong to long for the correct honor due them. I too wished for honor from my Father.
“And I was seated at his right hand, the place of chiefest honor. And when I was, I gave my disciple, John, a vision and showed him my place {in the book of Revelations.} I then told him to tell others.”
“For this testimony about me is true: that I am honored more greatly than all of my brothers. This is because the last shall be first, for I indeed was the last, lowering myself to the lowest, being born as a human to parents with neither money nor status. Walking a road without the true honor or fame of the temple and it’s priests. Though I showed I was worthy of it when I taught Israel’s leading pharisees when I was twelve and untrained by men’s standards. And I was last because I endured the cross and the torture before it, though I had done nothing wrong.”
“Yes, I bent the lowest even descending into hell itself: the utter depth, and now I am raised the highest. This is why I am the firstborn among my brethren: the chiefest. Yet, I was not born first, no Adam was the first man, and he should have been the firstborn among men. Oh yes, what a man I made on that day, a crowning work of art. But instead Adam rejected my path for him, choosing to make his own crooked way and find knowledge himself through depraved methods (doing things out of their time), rather than following me as I guided him.”
“After Adam fell, he could no longer truly lead the family that was humanity, for all he could do was warn them of his folly, he could not tell them how to walk the road rightly. For he had not walked that path himself and thus did not know it. So, another firstborn needed to arise who would walk the righteous path and show his younger siblings the way. I arose and took up the path, for there was no other. And thus I Am the new firstborn. You will see other instances in the Bible where the true firstborn was not the one born first, these were a foreshadowing.”
Dive date: September 24 2022
Lunar: 1 day before the “Dark Moon.” (This is often referred to as the “new moon” in modern vernacular. But many traditional cultures considered the new moon to occur once the moon is once again visible. Because I too hold to this idea, I am using the words “Dark moon” to refer to the days when the moon is hidden.)
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