No matter how honest our desire for still more spiritual growth, attempting to grow spiritually by using the reasoning mind alone will not get us there. Mainly because spiritual growth does not make sense. It goes against every humanly perceived "need." The need to not let others run over us...the need to stand up for our self...the need to speak our truth...there are too many to recount.
Then there's the fact that the reasoning mind, entwined with ego, demands that sense be made. Regrettably the sense we demand is fitted to our ego-victory thinking. Ego deflation in depth is often an eyebrows-up desire...we want to preach to others the need for it, but doing the work to achieve our own? That leaves a lot to be desired...as in, where's the immediate feels good? Where's the glory? Where's the atta girl?
It is a hard lesson learning and harder still accepting that if we will seriously and sincerely turn our body, brains, bones and blood over to the care of God, those "needs" will be erased, deleted...transmuted.
The kicker is the only way we can know that unto realization is by denying our self those self-perceived needs...don't stand up for our self, don't speak our truth...or just agree with our adversary quickly. That is powerlessness, and it's like saying "No" to a baby...or a puppy. It is, however, the way the grace of God enters our heart to show those "needs" as the ego-wants they are.
We go to God for God. We go to God to make conscious contact with God. When that contact is made, we wait for the Spirit of God to do the work. In other words, we say no to self, yes to God, and let others walk free in our own head.
The spiritual mind is about giving over, the material mind is about getting. Loose it and let it go.
Thank you.
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