Day 22: The Road Less Traveled: Your Mind to God's Heart
Read: Mark 12:28 - 34, Psalm 22:1 - 5, Proverbs 3:1 - 6
Over the course of our lifetimes we strive to achieve certain
milestones in our lives. We struggle to place check marks in certain
boxes along certain paths of our life. We think about the most important
things we need to accomplish. We cannot wait until we get to the age of
16 when we think we have finally arrived -- when Mom or Dad let's us
get behind the wheel of the family vehicle and we start learning how to
drive.
In our minds, we cannot wait to travel the short
distance between the inside of our homes to the door leading to the
garage and the drivers side of the family car parked inside or or to any
other door leading out to the driveway where Mamma parked the car when
she came home from work Last night. In our hearts, we fall in love with
the idea that we will soon arrive at a most significant checkpoint in
our lives. First a learners permit then with success, a drivers license
then the freedom of the open road - to the Malls, Friend's House's and
also to school and many points in between.
Connect the dots
along the pathway of your life, check off the boxes of where you think
you should be to convince yourself that your life is successful, at
least in this moment and at this exact time. Open a new door to new
experience, go through it and just think that your right moment has
arrived. But how does it feel in your heart? Is it really the right time
for that moment in your life? What are you pushing behind you to be here in this moment. Perhaps it is your heart that is being pushed aside. What do you think about that? How do feel about that?
It is only a distance of about 18 inches. It is the distance between
your mind and your heart. Yet it is the one distance we have the most
challenging time in life trying to navigate. Perhaps it is the anguished
song of the Psalmist in Psalm 22 trying to put as much distance as he
can between what his mind is telling him (verses 1-2) to the the single
point where his heart firmly believes it can sing it's ultimate song of
trust for redemption and sure salvation (verses 3 - 5) from the
anguished life. It only took one single verse (2 - 3) for the Psalmist
to connect the dots between the anguish that reigned in his mind to the
purest form of trust, the surest illustration of true love only to be
found by walking through the door of our thoughts into God's own heart.
Jesus said that the 18 inches between our anguished thoughts and
redemption of our hearts is simply this; Let your very first thought be
of God and His sovereignty over your life. Then trust the heart of God
and allow your hearts' to beat as one. Let trust in God take over from
there and love God with everything, every thought you'll have. Walk the
18 inches to the doorway of your thoughts and step through it with great
confidence and greater trust that the end of this pathway leads to the
heart of God.
Shout into the jumble of your thoughts that today
is going to be a new day. Pray to God to reveal to you His heart. Pray
for the Lord Jesus Christ to come in to your own. Pray to the Holy
Spirit to unite your heart beat with God's that they may beat as one.
Pray to the Trinity to reveal to your thoughts and to your heart one
more pathway leading to the doorway of God's kingdom that you may boldly
step through as one, willingly allowing your lives to be become transformed
into a more visible likeness of Christ.
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things work for our good Though sometimes we don't see how they could
Struggles that break our hearts in two Sometimes blind us to the truth
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