I want to give you a secret to becoming rich in the Kingdom of God. Yep, how to get rich. Not rolling around on $100 bills in your pajamas rich, but true wealth. Riches paying dividends that increase in yield regardless of economies or trends.
My child, listen when your father corrects you.
Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
What you learn from them will crown you with grace
and be a chain of honor around your neck.
Proverb 1:8-9
WOW, a crowning of grace and a necklace of honor. Sounds like rewards to me. But what if the instruction of our parents was godless or abusive? How do I process the negative lessons into a Godly provision?
Here is the key to opening the door to this asset: nothing in my life can be sorted out through my sensibilities of right and wrong. I am a child of God and ALWAYS have to ask the Father what things mean. Though I usually need to be reminded in the moment, this is an ALWAYS. The face value of any circumstance is usually a mere delivery system, while the true definition is held in the mind of God.
This is a furtherance of the lesson of “listening to the messenger and missing the message.” I can’t get away from these words. I can’t tell you how many wounds I bear simply from not asking the Father to interpret a situation. And the main problem with this is that not only do I leave injured, I also lose the privilege of benefiting from the circumstance. God gives us all conditions where we can choose to drill down and glean from Him, or turn aside in hurt.
Many times in my walk, things were done to me that caused me to stop and say, “What are YOU saying in this?” And when I asked this, the poison stinger was removed and I was given a treasure. I didn’t judge it by sense and reason but listened to the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:6 AMP). Again, the results were wisdom and spiritual fruit. And the good news is even if I fail to do this in the moment, God can redeem the situation. Let me give you a parental for instance.
I stated previously that my expectations of my father were not met. On this side of my salvation journey, I have said, “What were YOU saying?” One of the answers from the Lord is, “I AM Jealous!” God was jealous for what? For my affections and attention.
God has continually blocked my fleshly attempts to get love from sources outside of Him. I have run at this wall like a bull elephant. Slam, slam, slam! I wanted what I wanted, but God will have what He will have. He is stronger and more patient than I. So what I initially saw as neglect and rejection by my father translated in God’s mind as HIS desire and affection for me. Talk about a mind bender. This is why, as God’s child, I ALWAYS have to go to Him for the answer of what is happening. Man is too fickle, our frame is too delicate and our world too topsy-turvy to trust our limited understanding as reliable.
At the end of the day, our Creator will have to let us know: what He created, why He created it and what its purpose is. When I am open to listen to His take on things, then my exhausting energy flow of trying to figure it out, fix it, or make it right as I see fit will end. The End!
Yes, Sam I appreciate you and your sharing. I enjoying the sharping and joy that comes from connection and sharing.
Take care.
Amen!
As you said, these Operations He takes with ax in His hand, aiming the root, untangling the mess, clearing the way. Truly the God you speak of is the God that I so desperately need.
I Love your radical vision.
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“Many times in my walk, things were done to me that caused me to stop and say, “What are YOU saying in this?” And when I asked this, the poison stinger was removed and I was given a treasure.”
Yes. So true that only His Mind can make my loony mind go right.
Haha Sam. I am beginning to realize that my only freedom from my “loony mind” is to get out of it!
Ah Tina… He said that my “mind” (which is part of me) He made it, He created and shaped and formed it… into His image. Then I know the problem is not my mind (per se), but the lunatic (willful of me) that pretended to His gift to me in order to live completely outside and independent of His Right-Rightful Mind while at the same time deluding myself I am keeping any perspective of sanity at all. No wonder when I live like that I enter all kind of weird distortions (lies) about the Right Mind. It is totally crazy… Read more »
I pray we all can live in and surrender to “the mind of Christ” more and more. “…The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in… Read more »
Yes, I know what you mean. I completely agree. It seems whether we like it or not, the “old mind” is our battleground. Well, at least it is mine. You and anyone that proclaims Christ has fought greatly with the “old ways” that seem lurking behind, like trying to get the upper hand by the minute. Paul talked of that using several terms like “old man”, “body of death”, etc. He talked about it in terms of “completely corrupted”, “not willing”, “cannot understand”, etc… He even said (though not explained it fully, so I am guessing here), that God would… Read more »
What an amazing analogy of the tangled mess of the vines. Don’t try to untangle just go for the root! Wow!
(Missing a verb) *that pretended to USE His gift*
I like what you say about only “His mind can make my loony mind go straight”.