I do, on the top of my skull, under my scalp skin, I feel a gentle "smack" on the top of my head, for lack of a better term, when I sin inadvertently (I never try to sin) or think of sinning. Does anyone else experience anything like that?
I've told my Baptist husband that I can tell I'm held to a higher standard than he is since I was saved 4.5 months ago after spontaneous Baptism of the Holy Spirit and intimate spiritual union with God, and now am a Gnostic Christian Universalist. I believe this is because he never went astray and was saved as a child at the age of understanding (8), and I was saved at the age of 28 after a life very lived, and lived quite a bit in sin to some degree as well. Due to this, the parable of the Missing Sheep and Prodigal Son especially ring true with me, more so than they do to him as he's told me.
I feel an abundance of grace and spiritual gifts (true wisdom, understanding, love, compassion, humility, discernment amongst others) from God since my Baptism, but as the Bible says, "But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” This tells me why I feel those physical rebukes, and why I am aware I’m held to a higher standard, as I’ve told my husband, I feel those rebukes for things he would probably not even give two thoughts to as sin.
What about you?
2007-07-20
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