Blinding flash of the obvious: A lesson in learning about standing up for our self: We stand up for our self with the inner assurance that God has our back so we are able to speak softly, or not at all!, with the welfare of the other, not our welfare, as our preferred primary "winner." Which ensures we are a winner, too. When both sides come out the winner, God's hand is in it.
I sometimes think the hardest thing to believe unto breathing is the fact that we are going in the right direction when we feel no need, or even want, to protect our self. Specifically, we have no need to protect our self from the dailies of life for it is the dailies that slice and dice our peace of mind. It is our reasoning mind that blocks our trust, that will immediately project the fear of an undaily on us, a big hulking Unknown that has not and most likely never will happen.
Ah, but we have made a decision to rely no more on our reasoning mind. The instant we begin to feel the need to "stand up for" self is the instant we learn to shoot a "thank you." We do not wait to figure out why a thank you...that's second guessing God. If we are feeling attacked, or just uncomfortable, our reasoning mind will never immediately think that's a good thing. So we get to train (ah, ugly word alert, discipline) our own reasoning mind to realize it as a God thing.
Give over, give in, give up...get peace.
I sometimes think the hardest thing to believe unto breathing is the fact that we are going in the right direction when we feel no need, or even want, to protect our self. Specifically, we have no need to protect our self from the dailies of life for it is the dailies that slice and dice our peace of mind. It is our reasoning mind that blocks our trust, that will immediately project the fear of an undaily on us, a big hulking Unknown that has not and most likely never will happen.
Ah, but we have made a decision to rely no more on our reasoning mind. The instant we begin to feel the need to "stand up for" self is the instant we learn to shoot a "thank you." We do not wait to figure out why a thank you...that's second guessing God. If we are feeling attacked, or just uncomfortable, our reasoning mind will never immediately think that's a good thing. So we get to train (ah, ugly word alert, discipline) our own reasoning mind to realize it as a God thing.
Give over, give in, give up...get peace.
We must learn, relearn, and learn yet again to trust that we are utterly and completely protected by an unseen power, or God, no matter how or what is appearing before our very eyes.
We learn until, without hesitation, we are doing it! This is the certain, sure road to peace of mind that our undisciplined mind rejects repeatedly and consistently.
What our reasoning mind can never accept is that by our decision to throw in with God and God alone, God does the work...God takes the action...God completes us.
"I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight…." Isa.45:2
Thank you.
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