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Thanks for your kind reply, Dear Heart,

I think I understand well your logic.

You seem rather firmly rooted in the notion that the clear glass/lucite/diamond pipe is best and allows the most of God to flow thru most purely etc.

Perhaps the analogy just breaks down at some point.

Perhaps God has a different priority than assumed.

Have you noticed the gemstones mentioned in the foundation stones you listed?

There's no diamond.

There's no purely clear stone.

Evidently God has a different priority list.

PERHAPS GOD ALMIGHTY LIKES color in HIS gemstones, more.

He COULD have created us all as clear glass/lucite/diamond pipes.

He did not.

St Paul at his best; John the Beloved at their best; Roland Buck at his most saintly; . . . all . . . even face to face with God Almighty . . . Roland was still Roland. And God delighted in him.

There are likely mysteries here . . . but I remain convinced that the solution is NOT the obliteration of personality. That doing so would be offensive to God as very counter to what He's about with us mortals.

In my view, it doesn’t matter whether we strive to retain our personalities or whether we strive to become transparent in Him. He accepts us either way.

I do see God as the master artist who doesn’t mix all the colors on His palette into one, but rather uses each color in contrast to the other to create His living masterpiece.

But with regard to New Jerusalem foundation gemstones not including a diamond (clarity) - the bottom foundation gemstone is Jasper which is green or clear. And the clear Jasper is the variety of Jasper being spoken of in Revelation. The Jasper is also used in Revelation 4:3 to describe the Throne of God:

And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light [was] like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; - Rev 21:10-11

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. – Rev 4:3

BTW, the Sardine stone is blood red

New Jerusalem itself – including its streets are pure gold, like clear glass according to Revelation 21.

From all of these, my leading in the Spirit is that striving to be transparent in Him is ok, too. And I will continue to do so.

An interesting link to colors and how they are used in marketing, i.e. the emotions they bright out in us: Color Wheel Pro - See Color Theory in Action

Since God created us with our various personality types, I'm sure He wants us to keep them. He just wants us to change our stinking thinking and then our behavior (which comes when we change our thinking). I'm still going to be a maternal woman but now I will be even MORE so.