Dealing with The Dark

 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light  (Ephesians 5:8)  

The Question:  How does someone learn to deal with spiritual things, and darkness?  

Someone may need mentored into it.  Prior to working for God, I was in the US Army.  I became used to being around gross things.  Still, receiving a heart of flesh, and a new spirit from God, God would reveal grosser and uglier things that were around my person, or in the periphery, that I had been blind to.  The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a councilor.  At our own pace and speed, God would reveal ugly things to me.  

A few months ago, I was on discord.  I was on a Philosophy/Religious/Political discord, and there was an an arrogant atheist there who was projecting onto Torah.  He believed that one of the scriptures about how to treat a daughter was immoral, in his Secular Humanism, and was looking for someone to justify it.  After some back and forth, and I had a feel for whom he was, I ask him "if your daughter was in the orgy tent at the Burning Man Concert, how would you feel?"  

He replied "I hope she would be.  I may have been leading the orgy."  Something to that extent. Then he asserted how he was proud of being, or would like to be, in that type of debauchery.

The man I was talking to on discord, he was very ok with debauchery, and his children dishonoring themselves, and their family, in abominations.  That was pretty much the end of that discussion.  He was an immoral person and should be ashamed.  I let him know this. 

In this conversation there was a levelness.  No hysterics.  There was a maturity.  The goal was building the Kingdom of God.  To that end, all non-believers, and their false perspectives and arguments, they will be put down.  What gets us from point A to point B?  

In building the Kingdom of God and becoming aware of the Darkness....someone may become a Harvester of Sorrow.  It isn't sadistic.  Someone takes no pleasure in it.  It is some dirty work that just needs to be done.  

How does someone learn to deal with things in the dark?  Part of a journey of growing in faith is a stripping process.  False perspectives are stripped away from someone.  Did someone really like Harry Potter growing up?  The author was a witch into some Aleister Crowley, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn type stuff.  Given someone grew up enjoying Harry Potter, growing in faith with God, they may have to separate themselves from that.  This is part of Sanctification.  To be made Holy.  

Christian societies value virgin brides.  Was your society more of a Virgin Israel or a Harlot Ezekiel 23, drinking a harlot's wine?  (Revelation 17)