Leave it to Neil – the engineer – to give us a step-by-step outline for reprogramming ourselves… For some reason, that strikes me as funny!
But not off base, or irrelevant… My mind is a battleground, and pulling these scriptures out and lining them up helps me get the big picture. I can’t just have faith and then hope with fingers crossed that in the moment of temptation or crisis, I’ll do the right thing…
This stuck out as I read: …if you can mentally prepare yourself in advance to obey the truth, you can motivate yourself toward productive living – as long as you follow through by doing what you imagine.
I tend to live in the moment; I’m a little impulsive. What Neil has to say challenges me to take responsibility for myself by preparing mentally ahead of time. When he says it, it sounds so obvious! But it’s not my natural way of thinking.
So my challenge for today will be this: work on what goes on in my mind, with a fresh understanding that it matters, and see how that affects my ability to hear and obey the Lord.
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