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It is a very controversial topic, mainly for Christians. For some other religions, reincarnation is a reality. Some people, mainly in their childhood, independently from their beliefs, remember their previous lives.

For me, seeing that God, along with the rest of the universe, including us, in his truest form is energy, reincarnation is very logical.
The Bible says: “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.” Hebrews 9:27-28.
I absolutely believe in judgment. So much so, that I think we, our actions are actually judged every day, every second. That’s why we have guilty conscience when we think, say or do something that we know is wrong. We have it automatically. Humans are very efficient at turning off the automatic controls, though. Is that bad? In my opinion, it is not good. It’s like turning off the pain of the body only while an illness is raging on and not taking care of the illness. You can but is it worth it? Is it worth it not knowing, not thinking of the consequences of our actions?

I have some experiences concerning judgment of my own. Some of the scariest stories of my life. No matter how good you want to be and how well you do things in life morally, we all make mistakes. That’s why we are here. The Bible says that we are sinners. I had heard that and at one point in my life I decided that this ‘sinner thing’ is just to cripple one’s life. I had so much on my plate already that I had to deal with, feeling that I was a sinner, on top of all this, didn’t help me. I had kept on with this thinking until I realized that I had made mistakes in my life. Mostly, small “crimes of the heart”. In western civilizations these are not punishable by laws. In other countries, society is a lot more judgmental.

Then came a moment when I started to think about these small mistakes… I had to realize that some might hurt people more than I would have ever thought. I already have known how other people’s smaller or bigger mistakes hurt me. I didn’t need explanations about that. The damage that was done by some people, were tremendous.

After I met God, around that time, I did see in one of my dreams how God is very strict. I saw his light in my dream, just like when I met him but my dream tried to show me some sides of him that I didn’t experience while in Heaven. What was shown, was that he tries to keep us safe by all means possible. In my dream, I saw white concrete or marble road, with high concrete railing along the side of the road. There were some green plants on them growing, showing that God cares about our feelings but the high walls are needed to protect us.
I now think, that God knew that I was going to be tempted by the devil after I met him, and he was gonna come after me. I on the other hand, was clueless about this. Not about the devil. I knew that very well from another dream. I was clueless about the temptations that were coming towards my way. I should’ve read the wise words of the Bible, in all seriousness. Our laws are very lax mainly about morality. They give no indication nor explanation or support to understand our own true circumstances in life. That’s what the devil is counting on. Everyone is an easy prey from here on.

Looking back, I think God had tried to warn me of the dangers. That’s why he gave me the dream of the road and the high solid concrete guard rails. He’s not going to take your soul to a trip every time he wants to tell you something. That’s why he communicates them through dreams. That’s why he made dreams.
God always will give you the utmost personalized advice. Many-many people don’t even believe that God exists. In their intimate moments even some priests and other religious figures admit that they don’t know if there’s God. Even more people just can’t fathom that God would care about our well being. Though that’s what the Bible is about.

When I had realized that even smaller things are really bad in God’s eyes, I tried to pay even more attention to his way of thinking. God doesn’t do this because he is careless about our feelings. He does this because he cares. Do we let children just run wild and burn themselves, or fall or suffocate in a pond? No. A good parent rather warns the child, yells at them or even ‘punishes’ if she or he can see the child in danger. That’s what a good parent does. And exactly that’s what God does. What is so hard to understand about this? Despite this fact, many people rather run towards danger with full speed. Then they cry like children do when they get hurt. And then blame everyone, including God.

So, I’ll try to repent, say sorry and to pray for those I might have hurt. I still make mistakes, mainly in my thoughts. Just like others, I try to criticize and judge mainly people who have been consistently doing horrible. Most everyone would say that this is OK. It’s OK by us. Not OK by God. It’s OK to state their mistakes. To face them with reality. It’s a different thing to judge them. That’s not our job. God takes that horrible task on himself. He knows what he’s doing. He’s the most intelligent being in the universe. He’s the origin of everything. He knows exactly what to do and when. We don’t.

Many would say that’s too many rules to follow. It’s not that much, though. God told us what to do: LOVE. PRAY. And HAVE FAITH in the most intelligent person in the universe, that is God. FOLLOW his commands. That’s it folks.
When in doubt just ask yourself the question: is this a loving thing to do? If not, just stop doing it.

My story of criticism and judgment: so, one day I had criticized in my mind and out loud at home, some female members of a particular country that many would say is very corrupt. I don’t even have to say: God did not like it. That night he gave me a dream to remember for good. The dream frightened me to my core. In my dream, I saw a female driver from that particular country. I knew she was a slave. Literally. And she was hollowed out to her stomach area on the inside. Because she was not a good person, she did things in life that she shouldn’t have. That was scary enough. She was functional and had an outer woman shape and surface but she was hollow inside. Maybe I didn’t get the message entirely because then God showed me another female driver. The same scenario. She was a slave. She was driving a car. Only that she was hollowed out to her pelvis. She had no internal organs. Nothing. On the inside, all I could see was her bone structure. Very-very puzzling. Then I saw a weird, smaller drill. It was closing upon me and started to drill a tiny little hole in my face. That was the moment when the shock hit me. I was frightened out of my mind.
I woke up in an instant. I was still under the influence of it. I started to think about it, and what it could mean to me. I had remembered my criticism. And somehow I had the feeling that the meaning of the nightmare was that they were not good people but God have already taken care of their punishment. And it was not my job to punish them even more. Or he was gonna hollow me out just the same even if just starting by a very tiny drill.
As scared as I was, I was like: thank you! You’re amazing, God! You scared the world out of me! You scared me, to save me. You saved me from going on with that criticism that was fruitless for both me and them. I couldn’t help them or the world with that state of mind. Even if they’re corrupt to their core, criticism won’t help them. They need prayers at this point. Serious prayers.

Just because God shows someone Heaven, it doesn’t mean that they are immune to mistakes, neither are they immune to punishments. God keeps teaching us all for good. God always gives you warnings, though. Nothing comes out of left field. If it seems that it does, then one haven’t payed attention until then.

Judgement is not our job to do. It’s a very difficult thing to learn or relearn this in our society where we don’t have the faith that God is going to take care of the crimes and the offenders.

No one can get away with crimes. Neither with small, nor with big ones. If it seems that someone gets away with any crime, it is just an illusion. We humans are very flawed beings. We need lessons. This relates to Adam and Eve, and we have never really learned the lessons even until today. It’s time to do so.

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Could God really punish us with reincarnation? Well, isn’t this life an incarnation?
Yes, it is. How can you be sure that you’ve never had one before?

Could God really put us into the bodies of animals, as well? As I know God, he could. He has the power to do anything. He only does what is the best for us to learn the lessons. That’s all he cares about. Life is a school. Life is set up for us as a school. One can blow parts of this setup up but it’s not going to stop being an instrumental place to teach us all that we have to know. One will only blow himself back into a series of lessons he has to repeat to finally master it. We only can bring pain on ourselves when we ignore the wisdom of God. Things are not what they seem to the naked eye. Listen to your heart, to your soul and to the real dreams that God sends your way.

God bless you all!

Adrienne