Source: https://shadowofbabylon.com/2017/01/20/why-conviction-matters/comme...


I do not share your negative conviction concerning the recent election. I attended the 1980 republican convention in Detroit as a young republican and witnessed the elation and exuberance of those who voted for Ronald Reagan. I also attended to and observed the tears and fears of those who voted against him.


Since those days, I have ever been mindful and observant that there is a recurring tendency to idolize by demonization those who people vote against and to idolize by attributing angelic qualities to those who people vote for. I daily remind people of how people who did not support President Obama demonization him and thought the nation was on its way to ruin. It is the same with President Trump and it is ever the same in every modern election.


There is another way, a different way, wherein conviction is not founded upon outward religious and political notions and the people who profess and render those outward notions to rule the conscience of others. By the power of the visitation of the inshining Light itself in itself anchoring our conscious and informing our conscience we no longer identify with or are convicted by outward political and religious notions and the people who profess and promote those notions. We are no longer gathered under the process of meaning, purpose, and identity rendered through affection with outward forms.


In this different way, conviction is a way of being itself in itself. We are not affected or convicted by identification with outward notions and circumstance; we are affected by the immanent presence of the inshining Light itself and act in and through the relative increase, decrease, and stasis of the Light itself upon our conscious and conscience. Our actions are not affected by outward notions, like equality, community, racism, whiteness, blackness, self-government, capitalism, socialism, conservative, liberal, libertarian, constitutional form, etc. By the power of the spirit of Jesus Christ inshining onto my conscious and conscience I am come out of the process of meaning, purpose, and identity through and by outward political and religious affectations and results.