As I wrote to all of you a few blogs ago, logical
explanation doesn’t do much for me anymore. I can sometimes catch my mind
drifting to some sort of easy reasoning for the goings on around me but I
make sure to steer it all in the right direction. My heart wants nothing more
than to turn to the Lord for every answer and choose every action to be under
the obedient thumb. I recognize more and more of what it means to have a human
nature and even more of what it means to want to leave the patterns of my flesh
behind.
The funny thing about human reasoning is recognizing just
how much our limited realm of understanding allows us to label ourselves. It is
easy to give something a name when you first start to understand it, like a
personality trait or some sort of frustrating personal flaw. With the choice to
categorize different people in the simplicity of a few choice words, I can’t
help but observe how much we limit the true potential that each individual
could have. We regularly allow our words and assumptions to set up perimeters,
therefore decreasing or diminishing the probability of growth and expansion.
I know that I personally have spent quite a good bit of my
life characterizing people by the different observations I made about them,
allowing my own judgments to rain supreme over the Truth. I let my human
understanding take flight, prohibiting the Lord from penetrating my thoughts
and changing my heart. I allowed my flesh to swell with pride, assuming that I
knew all too much. This pattern could continue if I did not stop to recognize
the blessing of His voice and the power of His amazing grace.
All of us are subject to the patterns of our own thoughts.
We can fall victim to not just the enemy but the enemy we allow our flesh to
develop within us. Our logical reasoning let’s our mind get carried away,
deterring the Lord from doing His work in us. We are in no position to
label and judge one another and we should not act entitled to do so. I do not
want anyone to think it is ok to oversimplify complexities and I want to encourage all of you to step away from minimal explanation. We
are called to greater things than ourselves and I desire that all of us thirst
for His Truth.
