To live undefended...there's the price we pay, the gift beyond knowing.
The paradoxical price: The reasoning mind resists because common sense knows better, and the spiritual mind seeks to accept because we must go beyond reason to love.
We come to accept that spiritual growth is counterintuitive. The Sermon on the Mount makes the case, as in, if someone slaps you upside your head, turn the other cheek or if someone steals your cloak run after them and give them your coat or, the biggie, resist not evil.
Each of those statements...face it, all of the Sermon...requires one thing...that we change our mind. Or that we exchange our mind.
Our material mind will not get us there...cannot, more like. We are born into the material world, the world of opposites...good or bad, right and wrong. The majority of humans live there even with "heavenly" assistance...sincerely seeking God, finding the God of our own understanding, deep spiritual study.
Here's the great paradox: We believe from our eyebrows up, we live a more turned-over life than we ever dreamed of, we want the best for others, friend or unfriend, and still in an off minute or longer, we find our self "doing wrong," say sitting in judgment, and feeling less than good about it.
Blinding flash of the obvious: That is neither right nor wrong...that is the necessary turn-around for us to seek God's will, God's way.
We may recognize our error, even admit it, but accept it? God's perfect road to acceptance is through surrender. Surrender means crash and burn. We lose. We're lost and wondering, where's God now?
Undefended, stripped bare of self-will, all hope of our way gone, and utterly unaware, we've gone to God for God. That is acceptance.
Thank you.
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