I've experienced that non-identifying is the hardest Work practice - or reality - to describe. Though it's not really since the main Work sources do a pretty good job of it, but you just have to see it in real time. But having said that I want to repeat an insight that there is a real, strong, correlation between non-identifying and fearing God only. Because what happens when you are in a state of identification with your environment and people? You are fearing man more than God. You are allowing yourself to be cowed by the General Law, by man's opinion of you, by people's mechanical demands of you; by also people's confronting of you because you are not 'in the stream' of the 'world' (when you are present in real time, or just merely a regenerated believer in the Lord, King, and Saviour Jesus Christ and you fear God more than you fear man). The world will attack you for this and you will inevitably succumb to the 360 degree unrelenting attack and become identified and obsequious to the great mocking joy of the devil's slaves; so to come out of that (to practice non-identifying) is much like realizing you are engaging in the fear of man and thus you forcefully leave that and fear God only, like a king and a warriour.
I'll add that when you are in a state of fascination with the illusions and distractions of the devil's kingdom and thus in a state of identification with your environment in that sense you are also not fearing God alone. Because you are showing lust and fear and so on with the devil's kingdom rather than God's Kingdom. Coming out of identification with all that illusion and distraction, especially when you are drugged by it (all the influences and also actual drugs such as alcohol or substances or flesh or sport or what have you) is difficult because it's the most difficult to see. It's like the air you breathe. It's the medium you are operating in, like water to a fish. But...you just have to discern influences and levels of influences. Discern your environment and the worth of the various phenomena going on around you and in you.
If you're a born again (regenerated by the Word and the Spirit) Christian on the Way when you are a stranger in this world, and by default a spiritual warriour. You need to be awake and to have and use the full armour of God.
2.02.2008
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