When making our transition from the primarily material mindset deeper into the spiritual, recognizing unto realizing that making mistakes is the accepted way to learn is a hard, hard lesson. Talk about counterintuitive...which is a hefty word for spitting in the face of reason.
Learning a specific spiritual lesson...we have quit talking it, started walking it...requires an inner (silent) commitment to keep on keeping on. At some point, and we know not when, the burden is lifted, and we are freed from "trying."
Impatience is the bane, of course. Face it, we can't nail down "at some point," as in when, specifically.
Both the danger and the comfort is that we feel secure resting in the once-new-to-us message of the Sermon...in short, give over, give up, give in. The danger is our spiritual lesson has become rote...which, face it, is also the comfort. It has transmuted into a self-determined objective. We may, but seldom do, loose it and let it go.
Our reasoning mind, now in charge, relies on common sense which is steeped in self-protection so resists change as chancy, and continues to hold to our proven security. Thus we cannot see that we are back to relying on our own dreaded self-determined objectives.
We are born into the material world with the reasoning mind intact...in charge so to speak. The material mind is ever with us; spirituality we must seek. Spiritual growth requires daily discipline so that we may grow deeper...we seek to change, an alien concept to the reasoning mind.
We are given the gift of understanding...we are at first light. We see that the struggle is not ours, it is God's. Our singular focus is centered in believing that. Trusting that. Living that. For it is true.
...the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. -- John 14:10
Thank you.
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