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Originally Posted by alwayscurious
What was your friend's "AHA" moment?
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alwayscurious, I'm pretty sure @
GraceAlone was referring to me and my experience in the Crystallization Study of Job in the message on the two trees. I posted about it
here.
Since then, I've started thinking about it in terms of this picture, which at first might look like a young woman in a fur looking away from you, but then turns into an old hag in a sudden change of perspective. In that meeting I had a sudden change of perspective. Somehow I had managed to rationalize that message of "good can be distracting" spinning it as a message of don't forget to love the Lord in the midst of your good works. That was the sophisticated young woman in a fur. Then the brother said that "good can be somewhat worse than evil because it's deceptive", and later in response I heard at least two different brothers say something along the lines of "I'm so glad God doesn't want me to try to be a good husband, because I just can't." and it seemed to be an excuse to double down on reading life studies and going to meetings instead of doing the hard work of tending a marriage. That's when I started to "see the hag" and began to really notice the fruit of that kind of teaching everywhere.
