(Lord~I found one of my big contradictions today. Since I intensely enjoyed the pleasures and thrills of worldly things and I became extremely used to them from my childhood, I am not satisfied with the enjoyments of Heaven. I repeatedly wanted to experience greater pleasures and joys. It seemed as though my brain fell into bad habits. Lord, please teach me about how to treat the brain, which is accustomed to the wrong way; [teach me] the differences between the pleasures of the world and the pleasures of Heaven and how to be satisfied with only the joys of Heaven.)
As you said, there are many people who are addicted to the entertainment of the world, so they changed to enjoy the pleasures and thrills of worldly things and as a result, cannot enjoy the pleasures and joys of Heavenly things. This is not the same as a sin you commit on purpose or righteousness you continually build. Even though people have paid for their past sins, they have to overcome the pain and withdrawal symptoms by themselves, until their brains are purified and remade perfectly from the pre-existing tendencies of their brain which continue to exist. Those who are addicted to alcohol or cigarettes try to quit drinking or smoking, but it is difficult because their brains and bodies long for alcohol and cigarettes.
In the same way, since Providence people intoxicated their brains with the things of the world and made their brains in that way, they have to persevere until their brains are restored.
If they enjoyed worldly things once or twice, it would not be a big deal. However, because they continually yearn to keep in touch with those things and their hearts continually want them, then it is the path of leading themselves to suffering. The answer is to not experience them at all. When it comes to the brain, being stimulated once or twice reminds you of corresponding senses and memories, and those corresponding senses and memories cannot be erased completely from your brain even though you did not enjoy them frequently. You used to exercise every day but now you exercise regularly once or twice.
Even though you no longer exercise every day, your body remembers exercising and your sense from exercising does not die. The same is true. It is just like even if you do not eat three meals a day, but only eat one meal, you can sustain your life.
Therefore, if you do not refrain from enjoying things of the world for just one moment and enjoy them once or twice, the things of the world, with which you should not have to fight, will be your enemy, with which you have to fight needlessly throughout your life. You will live a life of suffering. If you are to become a person of Heaven and a bride of Heaven, you have to cut off worldly temptations completely. If you encounter them in unavoidable circumstances, I can understand. Otherwise, you keep killing yourself.
Serve one master. Even though it is hard and there is so much pain, when you serve one master absolutely, you will be accustomed to being satisfied with only Heavenly things. And you will be accustomed to being satisfied with only Heavenly things if you endure and withstand until your constitution of being used to worldly things is completely fixed. You have to endure for a bit and live your life with the Heavenly constitution. Do you think there is no pleasure in the things of Heaven, or even if there are pleasures in them, that pleasure is too small compared to the things of the world? I will draw a comparison between the pleasures of Heavenly things and the pleasures of worldly things.
Firstly, the things of Heaven are different to the things of the world. The pleasure of the things of Heaven comes gently and its pleasure comes with increasing intensity and it is reasonable. Moreover, it does not come the moment you start. As you focus on it and do your best, the pleasure permeates you like a flood before you know it. Then you can enjoy tremendous joy or you are overwhelmed with overflowing pleasure and joy. You can be ravished in it. It is easy to enjoy the pleasures of Heaven only when you have endurance, concentration, love, calmness and so forth.
Secondly, when it comes to the things of the world, its pleasure surges and comes strongly and quickly, without taking too long, and you do not need to focus very much. However, even though worldly things have the quality of being temporary, quick and intense in pleasure, there is one weak point, in which it cannot win at all when compared to Heavenly things. The things of Heaven have this quality about them: even if you do them over and over again, the pleasure increases rather than decreases. The pleasures of the world on the other hand, if you do them repetitively, you will get sick of it. Hence, you look for new things again and when there is nothing new, you feel agony and emptiness.
However, since the pleasure of Heaven is not given from the Earth, but from Heaven, the intensity of pleasure is different each time. The realization, inspiration and feeling you receive are different each time even though you do the same thing.
In the same way, the artificial pleasures Satan made and the pleasures people made are like an empty can. Even though it looks nice, it has nothing inside when you open it and it has no depth so you feel emptiness and agony. However, since the pleasure given by Heaven is natural in its essence and embodies the order of nature and the law of nature, it presents the best enjoyment and pleasure to anyone, if they enjoy it properly.
When it comes to sensing the pleasures all of you enjoy from the things of the world, it was God who originally created it them. Satan, who was jealous and envious of the love between God and human beings and the enjoyment of heavenly pleasures, stood against the things of Heaven and made other pleasures and enjoyments which belonged to death and tempted all of you. Furthermore, because they are artificial and temporary, humans are addicted to them; they get completely used to enjoying the pleasures which are temporary and strong, and so become slaves to Satan. They did not understand that this is the pleasure made out of the collaboration between satan and humans and they jump to the conclusion that there is no pleasure in heavenly things. This is the side effect of artificial pleasures, which satans and humans have made together. Ultimately, satan made those things in order to separate you and Me, and tempt all of you.
(My beloved Lord, on the earth there is abundant bait that tempts all of us. Temptations lurk everywhere. They lie in a flood of temptations such as cell phones, computer games, pornography, movies, television, cartoons, drama, entertainment programs, popular music and so on. I know how big the pain is in overcoming these temptations. I feel so sorry for them.)
I know that all of your mental power is not strong to the extent of being able to resist the temptations of the world. I know that well because your love towards Me is not yet complete and not been filled. You do not have that desperate heart and concentration, so winning and losing happens to you frequently. I know that all of you lose to and do not overcome your physical nature, which often surfaces despite the fact that it is the final time. So you are often disappointed and frustrated. But, My love, who is your eternal bridegroom? Is it the things of the world or the pleasures from your bridegroom, who makes all of you happy for eternity?
This is the pleasure of Heaven, which satisfies all your hearts fully without the indecent and lower-level pleasures of the world. But you cannot enjoy those pleasures when you serve two masters and are distracted. Only when you serve one master and have one will and mind with Him, will you enjoy it. Furthermore, the more you get used to enjoying only the pleasures of Heavenly things and fix your constitution of enjoying pleasures from worldly things, the stronger the intensity of the pleasure will be.
My love, don’t you think it would have been cool to walk the single path of life towards Heaven right from the time you were born? It is definitely difficult to keep your original intention without going astray and keep going in one way. On the other hand, it is the way to shine the value of your life properly and give out light, isn’t it? Upon your birth, it would have been better to live a life of focusing only on Heaven. When you become like this, you will enjoy freedom fully from the things of the world.
My love, the bondage of truth is not a restriction but your freedom. The bondage of satan and the things of the world is true bondage and restriction. You have to know this and enjoy freedom in the truth. I love you. I am the Holy Son. Shalom.