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Resurrection 10 Being a Doorkeeper Starts in the Mind
Matthew Henry in his Commentary on Ps.84:10 said this: “If we cannot go to the house of the Lord, we may go by faith to the Lord of the house; in him we shall be happy…”
A longtime Christian said to me last summer, “I’m still amazed at the stuff that goes through my mind even after living a life of faith these many years.” He was referring to the world’s darkness that lingers in the hallways of our sinful nature. Across the centuries you can find in the diaries, memoirs, plays and literature arising in every culture, that cover the same reflective struggle. The mind’s memory records past attitudes, personal behavior, images of events, ideas, conclusions, and all those ‘coulda-shoulda-woulda’ regrets. From time to time they bubble up unexpectedly and annoyingly in our consciousness. They induce irritants like guilt, pride, fear, denial, remorse and our immediate mental response ‘I can’t believe I did that or thought that or even had those kinds of thoughts.’ We all experience that lonely internal dilemma. We try and put a fix on it. Why am I like I am? What would life be like if I had done this or that? Just how do we process all this ‘mind-stuff’? We look for a bridge to someone, someway, somewhere who can help us find that inner resolution.
That magnificent musical ‘West Side Story’ expressed this human bleating in its closing scene’s song ‘Somewhere’ after the boiling cauldron of gang conflict resulted in the death of two rivals:
“There’s a place for us, a time and place for us,
Someday, somewhere we’ll find a new way of living, we’ll find a way of forgiving, somewhere.
There’s a place for us somewhere a place for us, peace and quiet and open air wait for us somewhere
There’s a time for us, someday a time for us, time together with time to spare, time to learn and time to care, somewhere, somewhere, somewhere…….(composers Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein).”
Is there any question as to what Jesus brought when He became human for us? It was by faith He lived, died and rose to show He is the ‘somewhere’, the ‘someplace’ but most especially the ‘someone’ who brings us the mental process, the thinking necessary to bring us to where He is, where He is the ‘bridge over troubled water.’ It was His reach into our minds through faith that we have the outer grasp, the insight and the way out of sin’s lonely dilemma. It’s the process of recognizing sin, repenting for it and accepting His forgiveness. We can’t solve who, why and what we are until we take that step of faith to let Him get His mind around us.
Jesus is the picture of a relationship with the Father and the Spirit. Having a relationship with an invisible God is necessary because everything we do is based on what we can’t see. All relationship, in fact everything we do, is based on faith which is invisible. We have been faithfully constructed to think and act faithfully. How we think, decide and act out our thought is invisible. What we see is the result of what takes place in our invisible minds. The basis for the whole thinking process depends on who and what we trust to carry us through it. The logical conclusion is to turn to the invisible Creator.
So if we go through the ‘should, coulda, woulda’ stuff we find that thinking repentantly with Jesus covers the past, frees us to think in the present and releases us to act in every next moment guided by the principles He brings to our mind. It is a matter of opening the door to our invisible mind to the invisible Lord and letting in the invisible light of the Spirit be the invisible guide through the invisible darkness of the invisible world. Who else can you really invisibly trust to walk through the invisible inner and outer storms that rage in the invisible reality of the invisible world? What we accept as the way, the truth and the life is a person, an idea, a system or its me.
God has opened the door of His mind, heart and Spirit in Jesus. What you see, sense and find in Him is God revealing Himself. The more you look the more you see. The more you accept the more you know. The more you repent the freer you are. The more you accept the more you own. The more you believe the more you understand. The more your trust the more you experience. The more faith you have the more your spirit grows. Paul tells us in 1Cor.3:16 that each of us is a temple of God. A temple has a door. The door is the mind. Open with the key of faith, repent, let Him in with His Word and relate to Him.
“Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked (Ps.84:10).”
More…stay tuned………
A longtime Christian said to me last summer, “I’m still amazed at the stuff that goes through my mind even after living a life of faith these many years.” He was referring to the world’s darkness that lingers in the hallways of our sinful nature. Across the centuries you can find in the diaries, memoirs, plays and literature arising in every culture, that cover the same reflective struggle. The mind’s memory records past attitudes, personal behavior, images of events, ideas, conclusions, and all those ‘coulda-shoulda-woulda’ regrets. From time to time they bubble up unexpectedly and annoyingly in our consciousness. They induce irritants like guilt, pride, fear, denial, remorse and our immediate mental response ‘I can’t believe I did that or thought that or even had those kinds of thoughts.’ We all experience that lonely internal dilemma. We try and put a fix on it. Why am I like I am? What would life be like if I had done this or that? Just how do we process all this ‘mind-stuff’? We look for a bridge to someone, someway, somewhere who can help us find that inner resolution.
That magnificent musical ‘West Side Story’ expressed this human bleating in its closing scene’s song ‘Somewhere’ after the boiling cauldron of gang conflict resulted in the death of two rivals:
“There’s a place for us, a time and place for us,
Someday, somewhere we’ll find a new way of living, we’ll find a way of forgiving, somewhere.
There’s a place for us somewhere a place for us, peace and quiet and open air wait for us somewhere
There’s a time for us, someday a time for us, time together with time to spare, time to learn and time to care, somewhere, somewhere, somewhere…….(composers Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein).”
Is there any question as to what Jesus brought when He became human for us? It was by faith He lived, died and rose to show He is the ‘somewhere’, the ‘someplace’ but most especially the ‘someone’ who brings us the mental process, the thinking necessary to bring us to where He is, where He is the ‘bridge over troubled water.’ It was His reach into our minds through faith that we have the outer grasp, the insight and the way out of sin’s lonely dilemma. It’s the process of recognizing sin, repenting for it and accepting His forgiveness. We can’t solve who, why and what we are until we take that step of faith to let Him get His mind around us.
Jesus is the picture of a relationship with the Father and the Spirit. Having a relationship with an invisible God is necessary because everything we do is based on what we can’t see. All relationship, in fact everything we do, is based on faith which is invisible. We have been faithfully constructed to think and act faithfully. How we think, decide and act out our thought is invisible. What we see is the result of what takes place in our invisible minds. The basis for the whole thinking process depends on who and what we trust to carry us through it. The logical conclusion is to turn to the invisible Creator.
So if we go through the ‘should, coulda, woulda’ stuff we find that thinking repentantly with Jesus covers the past, frees us to think in the present and releases us to act in every next moment guided by the principles He brings to our mind. It is a matter of opening the door to our invisible mind to the invisible Lord and letting in the invisible light of the Spirit be the invisible guide through the invisible darkness of the invisible world. Who else can you really invisibly trust to walk through the invisible inner and outer storms that rage in the invisible reality of the invisible world? What we accept as the way, the truth and the life is a person, an idea, a system or its me.
God has opened the door of His mind, heart and Spirit in Jesus. What you see, sense and find in Him is God revealing Himself. The more you look the more you see. The more you accept the more you know. The more you repent the freer you are. The more you accept the more you own. The more you believe the more you understand. The more your trust the more you experience. The more faith you have the more your spirit grows. Paul tells us in 1Cor.3:16 that each of us is a temple of God. A temple has a door. The door is the mind. Open with the key of faith, repent, let Him in with His Word and relate to Him.
“Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked (Ps.84:10).”
More…stay tuned………
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