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Originally Posted by craig1120
This story is risky and the potential for danger increases as the story progresses for anyone whose faith isn’t strong enough. Because of this, God makes it difficult to navigate through the story by concealing the way forward.
The only way to force God’s hand and prove to him that you are worthy of the challenges ahead is by spending time in the story, letting him know you are going nowhere. At some point, you must eventually reject the comfort and security of the more appealing stories and spend time in the meaning deficit and overall deprivation of the outer darkness where the lost and dead are.
When God sees you, not just voluntarily entering into deprivation and despair, but using the entirety of your will to remain there, he will have no choice but to reveal and illuminate the path forward. The one who doesn’t take no for an answer will be allowed to enter into the kingdom.
Once you’ve opened the door to this story and stepped foot to a certain point, you won’t be able to go back.
For instance, if you are trying to live in an appealing story — which means you’re trying to limit negative feelings and maximize positive ones in the short term — and you feel emotionally flat, detached, etc, then it’s time to level up in my secondary, Christian story. If you are achieving or having experiences which should normally make you feel joy or happiness and you don’t feel it, then that means you need to level up in my secondary story.
The worst place to be is miserable yet deeply attached to an appealing story that is providing you insufficient meaning and happiness. Stuck and miserable. If you’re going to suffer in misery in the short term, at least enter into my secondary story for the sake of your future self.