Nothing in life hurts more than rejection and unfairness. They seem to stick stronger than any glue in our minds and prove to be the hardest to resolve.
In my prayers this morning I was addressing this topic with the Lord. He put in my mind a vision of a washing machine and spoke to me that these thoughts that roll around in our head can be cleansed through his Holy Spirit. Our mind is like the washing machine and the Holy Spirit agitates these thoughts. (Jesus is the detergent). Allowing God to begin a healing process. The more we surrender any bitterness, resentment, unforgiveness etc., the faster the washing cycle goes. These thoughts roll around in our head because we, in our spirit of "self", have a hard time trusting God to bring justice to these situations. The act of us holding onto these thoughts and toying with them is our prideful instinct to think that we can get justice somehow. That we can rush the process along because we just simply want to feel better. We don't want to feel the pain of the situation any longer than we have to. It's all about him, not we or us or me. We only have the ability to be tormented by our thoughts. Whereas, he is fully able to renew our mind.
God, in his great wisdom, patiently waits for us to wear ourselves out. Then, when we have exhausted ourselves and we finally turn to him, he will release the pause button and continue the wash cycle. The sooner we surrender the quicker he cleans that stuff out of us.
What torments your brain, then, vexes your heart and then, cripples your purpose. Surrender is the key that unlocks the door to freedom.
Galatians 5:1, "For it is for freedom that Christ has set you free! Stand firm then, and do not let yourself be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
In my prayers this morning I asked God to remove pieces of flesh, my selfish flesh from my heart and to replace it with the flesh of his heart. I basically am so tired from battling these thoughts. It's such a relief to just fall into his arms.
Do you trust him to catch you?
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