Cognitia-Seeing Yourself When You Look At God

When you look at the sealed person you are looking at someone blessed with the Holy Spirit. And the way you look at the Holy Spirit depends on who you are. You can see something wonderful or something wanting.

The sealed person has the Holy Spirit. When you look at that person you are looking at the Holy Spirit. And your opinion of that person depends on how you are yourself, not on how God is. This is known as cognitia.

It is like looking in a mirror. When you look at the Holy Spirit you do not see God. You see yourself. And if you see something wrong chances are you see something wrong with yourself.

Jesus worked many miracles of healing. He did them by the power of the Holy Spirit. It was God's will that He healed people to show them He was the Messiah. And just to do something good for them.

It showed them more than His sovereignty. It showed them how it was good for them. Why would they care that He was the Messiah? Because He was willing to heal them of all their sicknesses.

And modern people have plenty of sicknesses. But modern people are just like people in the days of Jesus. If they criticize the work of the Holy Spirit they are testifying of their own faults.

At one time Jesus healed a man and the religious authorities said He was casting out demons by the prince of the demons. Now this could not be true. And Jesus Himself witnessed.

If He worked by the prince of demons He would not cast out demons. He would probably put them into people! He was only doing something beneficial to people by the Holy Spirit. Anything else would have hurt them.

But Jesus added something you can not forget. He said that when you speak out against the Holy Spirit you can never be forgiven. If you speak out against anyone or anything else you can be forgiven.

But you can never be forgiven for speaking against the Holy Spirit. And you do not want to be unforgivable. You do not want to be condemned. But the real secret is just who you found to be worthy of your contempt.

When you wanted to speak against the Holy Spirit you were mistaken. You were right about one thing: something was wrong. But nothing was wrong with the Holy Spirit. Something was wrong with you.

You saw yourself when you looked at the Holy Spirit. And when you criticized it was because you yourself were at fault. And this is what is so sad. It is a double condemnation.

When you are at fault and blame another it is bad enough. But when you are condemned for blaming then you are at fault twice. You want to avoid this. You want to accept the Holy Spirit.

But when you look at the Holy Spirit you see yourself. This is cognitia. It will never change because there are always new people looking at God who only see themselves when they look.

And the reason you see yourself is because you associate yourself with the Holy Spirit. Because you want the Holy Spirit that much. It happens to everybody. Everyone wants the Holy Spirit that much.

The best remedy for the situation is to fill yourself with the Holy Spirit. How can you do this? And satisfy your appetite for God? The Holy Spirit will live within you when you become sealed.