I know. I know. I was writing a series on Wrong Thinking and got snatched away with other matters. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. Spirit or flesh that took me away, I do not know. Just know, my friends, that where my attention and emotions went, thoughts about "problematic thinking" followed along. While I was there, my spirit groaned, my heart ached, and my mind was delivered into a freshness of Life.
Sometimes we are so consumed with how we think, that a fog comes in on cat's feet and settles down around our minds. It won't move on. Within that fog, we lose the Way. A bone-chilling awareness reminds us of a Presence far greater than our minds--for in His Presence we know we think amiss. We find our mind and actions swiftly following a path we had not planned to journey upon. In the mist, we discover God's mind, God's thoughts, God's purpose for our life. In His midst, we recognize a sweeter, kinder, more gracious conscientiousness we had left somewhere in a "list" another had written.
This happens to us all. We get emotionally bound to another's words. We get mentally twisted by another's attacks. We get physically worn by another's demands. We get spiritually drained by another's needs. And we find ourselves in a thick fog of indecision, quandary, hurt, and emptiness.
Basically, my friends, the 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 of this series (which I planned to address in separate posts), dealt with allowing outside influences to rob us of truth, joy, and perspective. These problematic issues were simply self-centeredness, selfishness and inferiority. When we give all these issues to Christ, our Lord, He takes them and compacts them into a tiny grain. He then stomps the death out of that kind of thinking, and crushes it beneath His feet. He then lifts His feet and places them on the footstool of peace, contentment and victory and reminds us that He is the Life of our thoughts, He has overcome the world and its strongholds upon us.
Whether in the body or out of the body, I do not know. I just know that when Jesus reaches down and lifts the mist, then discernment flows in like the warmth of a noonday sun.
I hope you aren't too disappointed in me for not taking 7 through 11 and dissecting them into tiny slivers and pinning them down like a laboratory frog. I left the biology and psychology classroom and closed the door. In Jesus I dwell and abide. In Him I am complete. And as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. What is in a man's heart comes out of his mouth. May we all see the grace in knowing this truth. selahV
