The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began,
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say -Bilbo Baggins
Where do you begin? What led you to this place?
Most of the time we find ourselves with these hard, deep-rooted convictions about how we view life, people and God and we have no idea how we even came to this place. Its like day dreaming and then finding the teacher is already three pages ahead or falling asleep on a long car ride only to wake up and have missed it all.
I read once in The Lord of the Rings, "It's a dangerous business,…, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." Its so true. Really. If our hearts are a wellspring of life, what are we doing to safe guard it? I mean the Word uses some really stong "war terms" to describe the fight for ou hearts. One of these is "taking captive our thoughts"(2Cor. 10:5). So….."taking captive" is some pretty graphic wording. I'm thinkin like nose tackling this person who is running full speed away from me and forcing them to go the way I am going.
I mean do we really do this with our thoughts?…umm i don't. I kinda let them flow like a river. And like a river they choose the easiest path and its usually not a good one. I definately don't keep my feet and they are swept off to all kinds of places and I usually have to walk back and redo the whole thing till I choose to think rightly.
So here lately God has been calling me out on that. Taking thoughts captive is a choice..a forceful choice. When lies come to your mind parading as truth, you must stand your ground. I know this is something God has been giving me strength to do sense our launch in Chicago. Its the strength to make a forceful choice. To say "yes" when all that is in you is screeming "no". To say "I believe your good God" even when all your circumstances are telling you opposite. Its loving truth more than lies, loving honor more than comfort, and chooseing to see God as He is and not how I precieve Him. Forcefully choosing truth over anything else.
Thats how we go from Mind Chains to Mind Change and freedom.
