God will give that to you exactly when you are ready to receive it. First, get to the basic principles, or you will not have the doors of your mind opened to be able to process the deeper things.
You will notice that Jesus begins to preach in Matthew chapter 5, in order to till the hard soil of His listeners' hearts, the exact opposite and inversion of conventional wisdom. This is a great place to get acquainted with spiritual principles, to get your mind ready to accept the things of God and be able to reject the things that blind you to them. It can't happen until humility opens the door to His sacred wisdom. Ego and self-centeredness and fear are blinders, and self-delusion is the most insidious kind, a poison that will permit no entry of light or truth Matthew 6:23.
The hidden secret to righteousness that even some seasoned religious scholars completely miss is the Great Exchange. God gives us what we utterly lack, through His incarnation and sacrifice on the cross, and offers us His perfection and righteousness and peace and love--literally heaven, which can be enjoyed while yet on Earth--in exchange for our imperfect selves which are jealously guarded by our own pride. This is the absolute key to the kingdom. The blood of Jesus will instantly position you into to a place of enlightenment that millennia of Buddhist meditation could only offer dim, transient glimpses of.
"Submit yourselves therefore unto to God..." James 4:7
What does that mean? Well, in the Great Exchange, we die to ourselves ("take up your cross" Luke 9:23) and live to God (Romans 6:9-11). What is self? Self is merely the avatar that we use to navigate the outside world. Self is an illusion; ego is a trap and a snare, an anchor that holds us in an imaginary prison. So we are not giving up anything of value whatsoever. We are merely exchanging illusion and death for the priceless gift of reality and life.
God will give that to you exactly when you are ready to receive it. First, get to the basic principles, or you will not have the doors of your mind opened to be able to process the deeper things.
You will notice that Jesus begins to preach in Matthew chapter 5, in order to till the hard soil of His listeners' hearts, the exact opposite and inversion of conventional wisdom. This is a great place to get acquainted with spiritual principles, to get your mind ready to accept the things of God and be able to reject the things that blind you to them. It can't happen until humility opens the door to His sacred wisdom. Ego and self-centeredness and fear are blinders, and self-delusion is the most insidious kind, a poison that will permit no entry of light or truth Matthew 6:23.
The hidden secret to righteousness that even some seasoned religious scholars completely miss is the Great Exchange. God gives us what we utterly lack, through His incarnation and sacrifice on the cross, and offers us His perfection and righteousness and peace and love--literally heaven, which can be enjoyed while yet on Earth--in exchange for our imperfect selves which are jealously guarded by our own pride. This is the absolute key to the kingdom. The blood of Jesus will instantly position you into to a place of enlightenment that millennia of Buddhist meditation could only offer dim, transient glimpses of.
"Submit yourselves therefore unto to God..." James 4:7
What does that mean? Well, in the Great Exchange, we die to ourselves ("take up your cross" Luke 9:23) and live to God (Romans 6:9-11). What is self? Self is merely the avatar that we use to navigate the outside world. Self is an illusion; ego is a trap and a snare, an anchor that holds us in an imaginary prison. So we are not giving up anything of value whatsoever. We are merely exchanging illusion and death for the priceless gift of reality and life.