With our realization of a defect, it is God-lifted...ours then is to make living the new our life. -- blinding flash of the obvious at 2:00 AM, June 1
God's work is done with our realization of our defect...God's help is ever with us as we commit to and aim toward living this new way, i.e., sans defect.
We remember that a defect of character began as a habit that we came to rely on. The human condition is such that breaking those habits is tedious at best and a hard slog in general..."want-to" is the culprit, meaning we don't want to, and that's the necessary change.
Ah, comes the dawning...the reason why our rues, regrets and remorses are our gold: Our "want-to" is ego's chauffer, and it rarely if ever drives God's high road to heaven. Every time we allow the chauffer to decide the way, we end up with the old r,r,r. It is those regrets that turn us back...in fact, return us to God and our new way of living. Ah, there's our cheap shot at gratitude!
In our reasoning mind's perfect world, the realization of our defect lifted ensures that we walk free of that defect ever after. That is another mistake to which reason clings and in the clinging makes moving up deeper mandatory.
In the mirror-image of our Father, doing it wrong is doing it right. What else so completely turns us to God? Or, more aptly, breaks our dependence on our own thinking...which is pretty much the source of all our woes.
We have come to believe because we have found it so that our Father really does know our needs. He truly does go before us to make the crooked places straight...plus, and a big plus it is, he lives within! Within you, within me, within us.
Instead of trying so hard to do our thing, in living the new, why not try to let God do his thing?
Thank you.
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