# How to Fall in Love - Spiritual Capsule (4)

> The title is strange, but it fits what we're going to talk about in today's capsule. Today's capsule will be in two parts, by popular demand: one for people who like things short and sweet, which we'll call #TheGist, and another for the hard workers who like depth and study…

*2017-01-26T14:19:01Z*

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The title is strange, but it fits what we're going to talk about in today's capsule. Today's capsule will be in two parts, by popular demand: one part for people who don't like reading and like things short and sweet, which we'll call #TheGist, and another part for the hard workers who like depth and study, explaining the gist so that everyone benefits.

#TheGist

There's a lot said about love, and we hear myths and tales about it, but real love has one source, the Spirit of God: "because love has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit". But love without wisdom is dead love, and deadly at the same time. That's why I have to test the love inside me well and see whether I really love with wisdom or with the madness of corrupt, soulish feelings?! Because simply, love without wisdom is like a store with no doorman: anybody can rob it easily, and it usually ends easily. And in order to receive wisdom I need a revelation from Wisdom about itself, not the dead wisdom of the world but the wisdom of Jesus, the wisdom of the hidden mystery, the wisdom of serpents that the Lord Jesus talked about.

#Spirit\_of\_Balah Vs #Spirit\_of\_Revelation (an introduction to understanding spiritual revelation):

Among young people nowadays, the word "balah" (dates) has become more than just a fruit; it has become an expression for loads of babble and pointless stuff, along with distraction and suffocation and lots of things like that, so the spirit of balah appeared, which has become a kind of heavy, annoying thing that chokes all of us. The strange thing is that this spirit of balah has spread in the churches too, and of course it usually shows up in churches that take dervish-style zeal as their banner, and this type usually doesn't talk except with things like "God told me today", and "I saw a vision that says" or "I prophesy about such and such", and all of this in young people's slang we call "balah", because strangely, if we look into the lives of these young people we won't find any sign of prophecy or divine revelation in their lives; rather, we'll mostly find strange, watery teaching with no spiritual weight, as if what they take as revelation is a revelation about the spirit of balah 😃:D not a divine revelation.

Divine revelation requires "metanoia", and not only metanoia, but also requires "a very special factor of grace", and as we mentioned in #Capsule (3), grace works with the soul in a relationship of "synergy", so the soul must interact with the Spirit; but at the same time, as we said in #Capsule (2), this is not a motive for dervish-style zeal or for the soul to close in on itself so that it can hear the Spirit's voice. Simply, if the soul has entered the path of "metanoia" and moved from it to "accepting the work of grace", you'll find that the voice of the Spirit is like the voice of a dove! A very gentle voice and very quiet, filling the heart with a declaration of fire, bringing the soul to a state of amazement at the power of the revelation, bearing in mind that the revelation at the beginning is on the personal level, because as we said the Spirit leads the soul so that it is sanctified completely and transfers to it the righteousness of Jesus; when the soul is sanctified it is freed from the chains of the flesh, and therefore it is able to communicate more with the Spirit, so at that time it receives what is known as (divine revelation), and this divine revelation is usually for the edification of the Church, and very useful for teaching, and is no less holy than what the Holy Spirit revealed to the writers of the Bible in both its Old and New Testaments, and thus the Spirit reaches with the soul to a degree at which He can reveal to the soul the mystery of the hidden wisdom[^1] that St. Paul spoke about, and without this initial revelation of the mystery of the hidden wisdom the soul cannot attain divine love in any way, and any love outside this scope is a soulish, satanic, deadly love that brings the soul to a debased level, so much so that humanness does not befit the soul in such a state of soulish love.

The subject of revelation is very necessary at the beginning of any spiritual life, why then?! Because simply the Christian life is a mystical (mysterial) life, and for those who don't know what mystical means, it is a word derived from the Greek verb "μυστήριον", pronounced "mustērion", and it means everything hidden[^2], and when we say that the Christian life is a mystical life it means that the Christian life is a life full of hidden things that need a special revelation to be understood, and this shows us the importance of revelation, so much that St. Paul says: "that by revelation He made known to me the mystery.."[^3] And as we explained, there is a difference between personal revelation and ecclesial revelation as a gift of the Holy Spirit for the purpose of edifying the Church.

#Conclusion The Christian life is a mysterial life that requires the revelation of the Holy Spirit, so that we can meet the person of Wisdom, the Lord Jesus Himself

#The\_Mystery\_of\_the\_Hidden\_Wisdom:

In the Old Testament it was said of the God of Israel in the Book of Isaiah: "Truly You are God, who hide Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior!"[^4], this was the Old Testament's view of the Messiah, that He is God but hidden, concealed, full of mysteries, as we said "mystical", and all this because He is infinite, and His being infinite makes Him not understandable to us as humans, and as humans it is impossible for us to understand Him, as the writer of the Ethiopian Liturgy says "and the thought of the heart, when it thinks deeply, cannot get ahead of the one who carries the messages or be higher than the Watchers "the angels", cannot swim hidden or go out secretly, cannot enter to see You, cannot try to know You or strive to know You, even a partial knowledge for one hour or even one moment"[^5].

But the beautiful thing is that the Lord sent us the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of revelation, to guide us into all truth, and to reveal to us this mystery of hidden wisdom, of course not completely, and that's not because He is not complete, but because no single person alone would bear the power of the revelation, but in truth He reveals Himself completely through the whole Church, "the Body of Christ", in which there are various gifts, each one the Spirit gives as much as he can bear of a gift[^6].

#Conclusion Our acceptance of revelation is acceptance of wisdom, and this kind of wisdom is totally different from the wisdom of the world, because it combines the wisdom of serpents and, at the same time, the simplicity of the dove, and this is almost impossible for the world, because if we applied it at the level of the world it would lead to hypocrisy, and at the same time we badly need it so that we can learn about divine love, because without wisdom, as we said, love becomes dead!

#Divine\_Love (a very simple introduction to divine love):

The strongest, greatest and most precise revelation of divine love is the Cross, in which love revealed itself, and powerfully, for "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends", this kind of love, we don't want to say it's like a monkey, and sadly it is the basic mystery that gathers the believers in the Church and ties them together so that they become the Body of Christ, so without this kind of love the Church becomes nothing, even if there are believers in it!!!!

Divine love is an energy of self-giving love that the Holy Spirit pours out in the hearts of everyone who accepted divine revelation, and came to know the mystery of the hidden wisdom, "the Lord Jesus Himself", and accepted to give himself for others without asking from them in return for his love anything but union in the body, so that they become one in Christ Jesus!

This kind of love is the only state in which we can say of a church that it is a church in truth. Never has the church building, or church services, or anything else been considered a church except this state in which the Church was always gathered around the Bridegroom "the Lord Jesus", and we won't be able to gather, with our different personalities and different thoughts and different inclinations, unless we have in us this love that Christ prayed for and said "that this love may be in them"[^7]. If you're looking for how to really fall in love, there is no way to fall in it except through submitting to the spirit of true revelation, not the spirit of balah, which will be able to make you know the mystery of wisdom, which in turn will enlighten your spirit with the love that comes out from God the Father

Fady Mondy

26/1/2017

[^1]: See (1 Cor 2:7)
[^2]: Strong's Greek 3466
[^3]: See (Eph 3:3)
[^4]: See (Isa 45:15)
[^5]: See the text of the Ethiopian Liturgy
[^6]: See First Corinthians 12
[^7]: See John 17

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