You who have reached Enlightenment or the Kingdom of God, what change did you notice in your character?

Question

When I was spontaneously enlightened and Baptised of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ on March 13, LITERALLY born again, the following instantaneously happened to me (in a matter of the 15 seconds the direct experience of God that I was graced with, instant changes to my personality/loss of ego):

- I had lost all personal ambition and striving for professional and material goals in life.

- I would be happy as a beggar, this happiness came in an instant

- I saw the spark of the Divine within all people as children of God, and felt immense compassion and love towards all

- I lost the feeling that war is justified in certain cases.

- I lost all desire and care for material items or gains, even for material/monetary comfort (this is nice but not a requirement anymore)

- I recoil in horror at pornography, violence on TV or anywhere, human suffering and seeing bloody or gory movies and images of any kind of human suffering and violent death

What about you?

Keep in mind these are not things I worked for, merely the instant of experiencing God directly (which I won't describe since I can't adequately and any words used to describe it are not enough and only can cheapen the experience). Instantly I was changed, my personality is still there, but all the base, carnal, sinful thoughts and intentions are gone, as are any desires for anything material. I also was depressed and anxious and instantly was able to stop taking my medications, I tried to continue but after this, they actually made me ill instead of making me feel better.

Amazing God is! What happend to you?

Answer 1

Nope, that is not what happened to me.

When I saw Christ he told me that all the people who believed in him were not sheep meant to feed wolves. He explained to me that some of his children carried arms and were expected to use them when necessary to protect the sheep.

These children were the predators captured by Christ and trained by Christ. Christ's sheep dogs.

I didn't believe I had actually met Christ when I saw him. I figured it was a some kind of acid flashback because everyone knew Christians didn't believe in carrying arms.

Yeah, that was crap. Christ had told me where to look in the Bible and I found that Peter had carried arms and that at the last supper Christ had told his disciples to sell their clothes and buy a sword. Luke 22:36

Later some well meaning and misguided person tried to explain to me, in a group, that this was a sword of the spirit. Someone else mentioned that it was pretty tough to buy a sword of the spirit and keep it under a table.

I also learned that not everyone is a "sheep dog". Something else Christ explained to me was the the "sheep dogs" don't lead. They usually run around behind and on the sides of the sheep, on the periphery and never in the front.

Something else Christ taught me was that being without was not much of a spiritual challenge. Lots of people could live a spiritually clean life when they had nothing. Very, very few could have everything and lead a clean life.

Maybe you think being willing to have nothing but Christ is Christ like. The thing is, Christ had everything. Christ could change water into wine and a couple of fish into baskets full of fish.

Christ was rich beyond measure. Christ didn't hang out with Church goers at the Temple, he hung out with sinners eating and drinking.

Being around sin didn't bother Christ. I am glad because I am a sinner and being saved didn't change that at all.

PS: For those who say Christ was a pacifist and never acted violently or took up weapons:

John 2:15
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

Answer 2

I've experienced some of this, too. I actually have become more articulate. I can resolve problems that I couldn't fully grasp prior to this. I now have wisdom, as apposed to just carnal intelligence.

The world seems a bit filthier when you wipe away its mud from your eyes and stand away from it. You can't understand how polluted the air is until you've breathed in clean air. I've realized why I couldn't think outside of the box once I actually stepped out of the box. The things that seemed like such a good idea and that which gets most people 'going' just seem pathetic.

I am a happier person. But, I also sense the urgency in preparing for the Kingdom.

Answer 3

During a shamanic death/rebirth episode brought about during a level 5.5 salvinorin-induced experience, I noticed many changes.

- taste for alcohol vanished
- respect for other's views was improved
- obsession with video games changed to repulsion
- dependency on tobacco diminished
- became interested in non-consensual reality
- a new ability: dimension immersion (the ability to switch my level of immersion within consensual reality).
- opened the path to direct revelation, especially by motivating me to learn about self-induced journeying

Yeah, it was the most profound change in my character. For a while my girlfriend and I wondered if I had swapped souls or what. A local shaman helped me resolve that question: it was a transformation, not a swap.

Answer 4

To Whom It May Concern:

I was able to taste and see the goodness of God in my life and the lives of others around me. I felt the love of God to reach out and touch the lives of the human race to let the world to know that Jesus is the answer for the world today. That our God is an awesome God and He really cares for all mankind. Pray to Him and He will answer.

Answer 5

It is still happening. I am an observer of my own life know. Time has no meaning. It all just seams like unimportant trivia. And yet this body still has responsibilities. I do not where I will go from where I am in this moment.

Answer 6

I too am growing more and more in spiritual maturity. I am more disgusted and uncomfortable with sin, even just to see it, and I am moving on to gaining more of the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control). I see God working in my life more and more. I have conquered many fears and have more confidence than I used to. God is using me for many great and marvellous things and will continue to do so because I allow Him to work in my life and seek His guidance and let Him lead the way rather than myself. Of course I can't do anything without His help. So even with getting stronger in the Christian qualities, that wouldn't happen if it were just me doing it. God is doing it through and in me. God gets the glory, not me.
I used to be so afraid of things and now those things aren't really fears anymore. Any continuing fears or new fears that come up I can easily overcome them with God's help. God showed me in His Word not to be afraid and I have made great gains in that area as well as other areas, but it is God Who is doing it through me. Not me doing it on my own. Plus, I am more and more moving towards living in a blameless way, a pure way, a Christian way of life and leaving the old me behind more and more. But it is God doing it through me. As it says in 1 John 3:9:
"No one who is born of God will continue to sin because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning because he has been born of God."
That is what is happening more and more in my life as I grow and mature in the faith and knowledge of God and let Him lead my life.

Answer 7

"- I recoil in horror at pornography, violence on TV or anywhere, human suffering and seeing bloody or gory movies and images of any kind of human suffering and violent death"

Yet I bet Passion of the Christ is one of your favorite movies.

Answer 8

I went with eating less meat. :D