GOD'S COUNTERINTUITIVE VIEWPOINT

Old news strutting its stuff just as if it were new: To change our mind is not to change our mind from I'm right, you're wrong to you're right, I'm wrong...no, it is to have our mind opened to God's point of view. Which is akin to what F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the rich being different from you and me.

It is not that God's point of view is different from ours so much as it is counterintuitive to ours. As in, our perceived nightmare becomes God's pearl beyond price when our mind is changed...upgraded if you will.

For example, we pray for God to relieve us of the bondage of self when to pray aright is to thank him for relieving us of the bondage of self. It must be thank you first if we want to trust...if we want to build our trust...that he has already done for us whatever need be done.

Same goes with our prayer that God take away our difficulties that victory over them may bear witness to those we would help of his love, power and way of life. We have come to experience the truth that all our problems have already been solved, and we pray our thank you for that...that it has been done. 

Our job henceforth...prove it. ("Henceforth" means for the rest of our life, I'm betting.) 

In truth, I  hope so...in proving, we trudge the road to surrender for it is only through surrender that we come to acceptance. Even as we often stumble-bumble, we walk forward unbroken, blessedly unfettered by our own self-will. 

We will wonder, we will question...if we're doing it right...but underneath is the certainty: We have made our decision, God's will is preferable to our will, we're going with God's will. 

And we rightly thank God, that he has already gone before us to make the crooked places straight.

Thank you.