I often remind myself that the hardest thing life is ever going to ask of me is that I change my mind. My ego, Lucy With The Football, however, resists that because Lucy is always right so why change our mind?
The test, of course, is if we're not feeling relaxed about our rightness, if we've got a "so there!" playing at our current nemesis, then no, we're not right. And it matters not if we're arguing that 2 + 2 = 4. The wrong there, of course, is whatever is going on within us that we would we be arguing about that to begin with.
The deeper we've grown spiritually, the more we find that is the question to any and all conflict: What is wrong with me that I'm resisting this? Being factually right does not make it spiritually right. and if we're not right with our Father within, we are way wrong.
It's all about divorcing ourself from our own opinions...from our own reasoning mind conclusions, or that which assures us we are right.
According to me, the quickest and best way to change our mind comes from the Sermon: Agree with your adversary quickly. Our adversary being the other side of whatever we're opining about.
Whether we're caught in an argument with another or a mental debate with ourself, we don't agree with the side we're up against just to shut the other up...that's the essence of a self-determined objective. The fairly simple action we take is we quit disagreeing with the other side.
We push pause to give us time to go to God, to hear him out...or not as he wills...but our mind has slowed so our mouth is no longer flapping. A good deterrent is the short sentence, "You may be right." That may or may not shut the other up, but it silences our own self. We can smile, nod, walk away...to ponder what fear got activated in us to get us in that brouhaha to begin with.
Getting clear with our fear is to realize God in the midst of it. Until we recognize our fear, name it and own it, that fear will own us. We recognize, name and own our fear, and there is the Revelator for nothing turns us to God faster than fear.
Fear is God in camouflage. Be not afraid.
Thank you.
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