And Hells come back to haunt me

[StrongWaters]

Why do you have to ask for god to open eyes?

---It's a treasure. The slave is the one who opens the pegmatite in the mine. The King is the one who sends him to the labor. In Hebrew culture, the Guardian was assigned to the land owner's Son to oversee him working the land. It was a way to teach the son through hard labor. When the Son comes of age, he is the new land owner, read to oversee the entire property.

There is a difference between asking someone to do the hard work necessary to see the results they desire, and asking them to figure out the correct interpretation of a set of laws (and rules and standards and morals, that no one has been able to clearly interpret for centuries) in order to follow them even when his heart is set on pleasing god. It's not only cruel, it's inefficient and works contrary to the ideals of a being who wishes for everyone to be saved.

The effort in pleasing god should not from trying to figure out which of the myriad interpretations are the correct ones; the Bible makes clear that even when you know what to do, and even when the commands come directly from god, some people will fail to serve him. Making it even more difficult to do so in such an underhanded manner makes no sense at all.

It doesn't happen often, but I agree with you. Communication is the response you get, which is somewhat lost in transliteration. Where I agree with you from the outer man, the inner man now knows the reason for this. Doing is the communication, not knowing. We are already known by God. Doing allows Him to reveal who we are by his eyes. This is the process of light revealing what it hits. Don't confuse temporal experience for ultimate revelation.

You look in a mirror and instantly see yourself. God holds up a different mirror called reality and shows you a vastly different image. It takes thousands of years and many lifetimes to get, but you will eventually see it. I am simply a glimmer off the edge helping you wake to the fact that you hold the key in your hand to the jail cell door.

You are focused on God. Focus on yourself first, then God becomes visible. He's been there all along.