From Isaiah 11:1-3:

1. Authority (The LORD)

2. Wisdom (what is goodness/what profits life and abundant life)

3. Understanding (how the facts apply/what to do with the information/what that information effects)

4. Counsel (comfort/help/guidance)

5. Might (confidence/unity with GOD)

6 Knowledge (truth/facts/information, firstly about what I am in creation and in relation to GOD)

7. Fear of the LORD (identity in GOD/Who is God in personality/What about him am I to become like)

Notice the order seems inverted for building identity because it ends with knowledge. If our participation in ensuring the new information effected our hearts and minds accurately then we would need knowledge, first. With this order, we gain by a series of gifts to have and after we have received then the Father’s face comes into clear focus. But it’s steps that start with experience: having a gift, understanding the gift, receiving help, becoming our identity, seeing ourselves accurately, and then we can finally see God accurately. While this is similar to our first birth in the body in that, first, the body is alive without the mind having a concept of self but receiving needs of voice and love, followed by a place of belonging and a relationship to the place, and then being brought to the face of the one who loves him or her and to whom this new child will mimic and learn beside. This order of informing yields the fruit of humility as a child who belongs. We might expect God to resemble pride, but he is a great deal more different from the attitude of pride than can scarcely be described. Pride would demand a child feel no sense of belonging. And if the mind placed demands on pride, the spirit of pride would offer knowledge as a fact and leave the mind to wander with questions all with the guise of giving the mind an “opportunity” to prove it’s god-hood by finding all-knowledge within itself, which is impossible. God, however, informs with experience, revelation, words, feelings, interpretations, and inspiring the child to continue asking questions, assuming his child will love talking to him so much that his child will grow exponentially more excited to be alive so that he or she can ask even more questions, maybe even thinking of questions to ask him while doing other fun things like finding new animals in the jungle. While the order to this experience might feel topsy-tervy from the experiencing of God, of reality, of rights, of identity, of relationship to God and, lastly, the kind of person God is like to hang out with might feel without control, I say, having gone through this personally, that it’s not backwards or disorienting but it’s purposeful to design a correct mind that is deeply rooted in truth before the truth is understood so that the identity in God is the deepest sort of fact. With that fact placed deeply, then the child can live in perfect fearlessness and joy, growing all the more joyful and all while spending time with God as Father, which is his greatest desire. Since it’s 1. On highest authority 2. To profit me into good and by a good way to increase me to the fullness of good in my life 3. Informative of my right to CHOOSE even after being further informed of my options for my identity with the inherit right to dismiss and command any lesser being, including any lesser spirit 4. Able to measure the cause of the spirit speaking by its addition of attitude to cause a sensation of health and life into me 5. Solidified in unshakeable fact of this identity within truth 6. With fullest clarity of mind to perceive reality, listening to this spirit with utmost respect and openness, although prepared to dismiss it should I change my interest in the spirit 7. Fully being introduced to the personality of this spirit to assess if I am similar or different, and based on those facts, if I am glad to be invited to grow more like him in disposition, attitude, and authority, it is an order to create an identity that is humble as a child is humble to the fact that he or she is born a human, but being born a child of God, in spirit and in truth (deeper than DNA and by choice. A choice that will outlast death.) This is a fact that he is or she is, in the eyes of God, born to be eternal and a child of himself. This is a fact to him in the way that means you already are his child. But it is an option and can be rejected. And in that way, it tends to yield to feeling unsteady. The unsteadiness is a symptom of evil’s lies coming against the mind by speaking about worthiness and by speaking accusations that cause doubt in the totality of this identity. God is not saying this identity is on thin ice or that it can fall away from your soul, accidentally. The opposite it true; it is an identity established before he made heaven and earth, and will not be like a vacated office building to be sold or occupied by another. It can ONLY be lost to you by your DECISION to demand you utilize your right, given to you by God, to choose your identity. If you choose to hate God, you are free to leave God. But the danger is that when you leave God to a place where God is not involving himself with you or within the environment around you, you might not enjoy where you end up. Before fear speaks, let me remind you that God constantly reminds us with passionate lovingkindness that if you hate him and reject him and leave him, but find that you change your mind and disagree with yourself, you just come back. Over and over, God tries so hard to keep us in understanding that if we leave him but then we want him, again, we just come back. He says, again and again, that if we leave and then don’t like where we end up, don’t be afraid and hide in the bushes like Adam and Eve, but make your desire to return to him known to him. Have the conversation. Don’t be afraid. When you want to come back, his biggest encouragement is to the ones who walked away because he is ALWAYS lovingly excited to get to be our Father. His love for us matters for how much goodness he wants for us to have inside us and in our lives and living in for eternity so that he is postured in readiness to embrace his wayward children at the instant of calling out to him. This is the desire in God’s heart when he says, “Repent.” He means to communicate that his door is ALWAYS open. When you leave and you’re ready to not continue in that way, apart from God, the whole entire identity remains yours and He will simply and immediately remind you of who you have always been and you’ll know how good, good is in His nature. And you’ll learn how much love is in his heart for you. His constant reminder, “All you do is repent” means “All you do come home.” It means, “I’ll leave the light on for you.” But God can’t be far from you. You have no where you need to travel to in order to speak to him. And there’s no act of behavior you need to perform, first. He’s nearer to you than your heart beating inside your chest. He knows every thought in your mind. But he chooses to respect your choice and so he can become quiet. But he is the one with authority and he decides if he still loves you, his child, no one decides that for him. And let me mention that he is the one and only person in all creation that loves you so much more than he loves himself that he didn’t just die for you, he sent his only son to die for you; you are reconciled, eternally, and you are more valuable to him than all his creation so much as that if he lost everyone else, ever, but he gained you, he would not withhold his joy but would fully feel that it was all worth it just to gain his having you. And there is only one of you. Your place in God is permanent but your time to choose is a lifetime. But in God’s heart, I am are irreplaceable. Who can replace me when there is only one? There is a place in his heart which perfectly loves all that I am, it’s me-shaped, in all my personality. There is only one me. And there’s only one you. You are the only one who can fill that space. If he loses you, your throne room will never be moved out of his heart and no other name will be etched into the door. If you choose for your name to be removed from the Lamb’s book of Life, that does not mean God etches out your name from his heart. No, instead he would grieve your absence, eternally. He would grieve the loss of all his ideas and every smile he was confident that he could make you inspired to feel. He would think about the joy you would have entered when you trusted him to be your protector. He wouldn’t change anything in your room, it would simply never be added to. He is not the slave master or the god of pain. He didn’t invent money or working for necessities. But evil thinks God is lame. You can go with evil and find out what evil thinks is cool. Evil thinks pain is cool. The moment you feel pain and disagree with evil that pain is a better replacement to joy, cry out about the injustice and ask him to forgive you thinking he was lame, too. He’s going to double-check with you that you’re certain you want to come back by reminding you why you left and how you felt about him and by asking you if he’s worth the loss of what you might lose because he cares about your every want, even if you don’t want him. He CANNOT value himself more than he values you. He CANNOT value his desires more he values your desires. If you want evil, you get to go be evil. It’s just that evil likes trouble, hardship, and pain as accumulating trophies as glory, treating these things as glory, itself, so that with evil there is an exchange of honor from helping people into stability, easiness and peace to gain glory of works in exchange for honor from causing chaos, tears and fear to gain glory, perhaps (but remember evil is robbery, so at the height of evil is the height of loss. Lucifer chose lack as a reward. Now he ONLY has dust. And this is why the demons worship him. Do you value lacking as reward, itself?) God CANNOT be evil. If you want evil, you must depart from good. But God CANNOT be evil, and that means that he treats evil with good. So, were you evil? Do you want to be treated with good instead of evil? The place to go to be treated with good is God because God is good. This is the heart of his insisting that repentance is available and near enough to you, always, he’s listening and waiting for you to return so that he can restore you and not see you harmed. He has to help you in order to help you. Without him is dust. With him is abundance. Evil wants to gain by self-efforts, even unto the abundance of heaven, which is impossible. Demons are not trying to earn their way to heaven, but they are trying to earn dust and they boast in the right to increase in pain and are honored by increased difficulty. You can join their culture of evil thinking, evil desires, and evil rewards. It’s an option. It’s there. It’s enticing not because it makes sense but because evil uses evil ways like deception to encourage people to join. And enticement is a deception on a sensational level. If your logical mind would send you to increase toward peace and abundance without robbery, you’re seeking wisdom. All wisdom leads to life. Evil is foolishness because all foolishness leads to death, which is ultimate, by fullest measure of, lack. God is the one who allows us to be enticed so that we can be fully informed of our choice between living in a good place or a bad place, amid a wise people or a foolish people, going to abundance or going toward lack. Don’t conquer enticements over and over or you’ll be stuck cutting off the multiplying heads of a serpent beast with each head that grows back more evil than the one you previously conquered and the devil will argue that you tried to earn heaven without God and are thus, evil like him, for wanting to be independent from God blah, blah, blah. I don’t want you to feel stuck in the accusers logic because it’s painful and difficult to see this light of hope. I encourage you, instead of conquering and rejecting the enticements, one after the other, make your ultimate choice for the fate of your soul by speaking to God that you’re ready to reject evil and choose righteousness. Tell him that you’re sure, all the way certain, that you’re willing to be righteous if he can make you righteous, And you think heaven with all this culture and people and ways is where your soul belongs, forever. Then, ask God to remove you from the opportunity to sin and remove you from the season of enticement to be informed by Satan as to the evil options available to you. You will stop being enticed to the point that you will know humility, receiving heaven as an unmerited inheritance and be unified to God in holiness finding out that being human is already being like God but it feels like being in awe that God is very human. And he will being to teach you all things while you grow to feel healed and better and whole and abundantly fed and joyous and strong and imaginative and free, but taking God by the hand and/or running fast just because you can and his yard is really big therefore expecting God to keep up with you. That is what repentance feels like, going home. Entering the fear of the Lord is a space of full focus to receive the truth by way of a gift to receive, continually, by choice being first informed of your options but ending in learning that, if you like joy and love, you have the greatest existence there is so much so that we might expect all creation to be jealous. No one is jealous. Not even the demons are jealous. They are lying when they say jealous. Demons choose to continue as demons because they are addicted to their structure of glory-road by way of pain unto lack. I pity demons, but I’m not going to spend too much time understanding them. And angels see the children of God as blessed increases of God, whom they love and admire, while growing in honor as servants trusted to help the most valuable and precious creatures they view as greater abundance into heaven than imaginable: more of God and little ones and little ones that need them and individuals with fully unique personalities – heaven just a whole lot more interesting – and the angels think this is honoring to them. But more than that, it’s the most fun with exponential fun increasing in all directions, for all time. Angels don’t just want waterslides, they want children of God to invent new waterslides. They look at you with great anticipation, asking you, “What are we doing next?”