Tuesday, October 14, 2014

"REM.........................."

Didn’t get to bed until late last night and then didn’t sleep well, dreaming about hijacking a train. Where is it that our brain takes us during slumber? For that matter, it might also be put to question where it leads us throughout the day, down through the years, any diagram of our journey through life certainly revealing more of a squiggle than a straight line. “It is not in man that walketh”, the Bible asserts, “to direct his own steps.” Maybe that’s because this amazing computer we hold in our cranium is way beyond our ability to fully grasp? Perhaps it’s like me sitting here at my desk in front of this Dell, able to punch a keyboard and access a few things, but over my head in so far as even beginning to understand much more than Google, e-mail, and basic blogging. Could it be that we were not originally created to operate in this manner, our gray matter not intended to become the sole source of determining what’s in our best interest, but merely designed to be a storage unit? What if this organ was meant to be no more than a tool utilized by, not just some individual spirit determining his or her own circumstances, but a “dual hook-up” wherein our Creator, Himself, is a vital internal piece of the puzzle? I was reading John 3:19-21 yesterday, thinking how so many associate “the light” with the message rather than the Holy Ghost, the mind of Christ abiding in our “belly”, not our head. When we lose that reality, replacing His accessible, tangible input into all that we are and do, what we are left with is the Book, our brain, and a lot of “stinkin thinkin”, making our deeds not so much “wrought” (ordered, shaped, brought about) by God, as they are by our own lack of inviting Him into the next step…….

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  1. You got me pondering the John passage. Like the first Adam who hid from God, we spend a lot of time trying to look good to others by "hiding" to the point where it is even possible to "convince" ourselves of our own fabrications. It makes me think about the way Jesus sometimes asks (paraphrasing): "Do you want to be healed?" I've come to wonder if we are willing to be vulnerable enough to really want healing. It does mean coming into the light and really seeing as well as being seen. Risky business.

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    1. Just responded to your other comment in the above post, noting what you say here. It "preached" well to the men at the mission last night, me pointing to Adam having rejected God's inner presence and then hiding his nakedness in the bushes. How sad that we, as believers, with such divine union restored unto us, yet think it capable to hide from the Light....

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  2. When our dog first came to us as a foster, she was so traumatized that she would not come out of her kennel. Then we realized, having been tied outside to a pole with six other dogs since her beginnings meant she probably had never even been inside a house. My daughter took her outside, open the kennel door and the pooch slowly made her way out and essentially stuck herself to my daughter's leg. Then she was able to bring her back in the house where she slowly got use to her new digs. In fact, she's still learning to replace old ways of being.

    Real change takes a helluva long time it seems.

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    1. As you've probably heard me suggest before, I believe the brain but a "storage unit computer", loaded from day one and still in there, showing up sometimes decades later, often a large part of who we are and why we do what we do. Yeah; change does not come easy...

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  3. That's a pretty good analogy! We do pick up the odd virus and need to upgrade our systems every so often. Sometimes, I wish I could just "restart."

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