I can tell you that I've been there. I've been so wrapped up in a thought that I completely forgot how I got there. I completely forgot what it was that took me to a place where God wasn't the focus or even a fraction of what was going on in my mind. It was in these moments that I was most vulnerable to sin. My mind was unguarded. Thoughts were completely unchecked. I found myself doing things that I cannot now explain. In the past I've said, it was just for fun or I did what I wanted to do. But, who truly wants to live a life on the edge of death?
The edge of death was where I was because of what I let control my mind. My mind told me I wanted a drink so I had one. Then my mind told me I was alright to drive myself and three friends home after having had far more than a few drinks. Where the mind goes, the body follows right? My mind took me on the same path countless times. Hang out with your friends. Have a few drinks. Drive everyone home. It was so routine that I no longer even had to think about what we were going to do. Surprisingly when I stopped rehearsing hanging out and drinking in my mind, I stopped wanting to do it.
Where the mind goes, the body follows. My mind was so exhausted that it stopped. I am asked all the time. Why did you stop hanging out? How come you no longer drink? What changed for you? Depending on what day it was I may have answered that I was tired of hanging out. I may have said that I no longer enjoyed the taste of alcohol. On occasion I have even said at some point you just have to grow up. What I should've said, the thing that wasn't always clear to me before, is a whole lot simpler. God renewed my mind.
"I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh."
Ezekiel 11:19
Adayinthelife :-)
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