“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.” French ProverbI have a friend who told me she dreams in Technicolor and only sometimes in black and white. I have one friend who does not dream at all, she claims. Another friend can't seem to tell the difference between what happens when the lights are on verses when they are off (Her paintings mirror her confusion). If I dream I want to dream in God. If I am awake I want to move in God. Awake, asleep, in motion, inert- in God.
When we are living in God the most amazing things happen to our senses, to our outlook, to our abilities. We see things and know things that are impossible by conventional methods of study and observation. I confess to really liking this part most of the time. Sometimes it is hard.
I covet the ability to look for and discern God's hand in Creation and not just to see the planning and the order but to see the One. To see God's thoughts and character in a scripture you have read a hundred times but one day the truth of it pours into your soul. To see His light shining on the path. To feel His pleasure. To hear His voice. To see sacred possibilities in an utter wreck of a person. To see wholeness replace brokenness. To embrace all things as possible, really possible. To believe that we are still composing the book of Acts.
Bill Johnson from Bethel says, "You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical." Walking on water seemed like a reasonable means of transportation to Peter. I want that God-logic. I want that renewal. I want it every moment that clamors for bread or peace or healing in the face of want and wrath and disease. I want to be in God. I want to do God-things. I want the empty tomb and a life full of Resurrection possibilities. I want to be done with excuses.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Cor 13:7
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2
My mind and my heart keep wanting to link these scriptures. It seems to me that a renewed mind is a love mind and only the love-minded are capable of the bearing, believing, hoping and enduring which are requisite to proving the good, acceptable and perfect will of God. Only the love-minded can see the clean man behind the leper's rags, the deacon in the drunk or the church walls erected in a field of rubble.
I am praying for a daily renewable, fully operational, impossibility believing, miracle perceiving, wide-awake-to-every-stirring-of-grace, love-mind. What might such a mind become? How would it influence the world around it? How would it be known? What limitations would it exceed? What could Heaven do with such a mind?
I pray my life will answer those questions.
How about yours?
May God not be ashamed to be called our God.(Hebrews 11:16)
-Kat
Paradise from Dante by Gustav Dore
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I think he speaks to us every day with little things like roses to big things like death.
ReplyDeleteI love your phrase love-mind. We often connect love with the heart. But in reality it's something we often choose with our minds. Thanks for your perspective!
ReplyDelete"It seems to me that a renewed mind is a love mind and only the love-minded are capable of the bearing, believing, hoping and enduring which are requisite to proving the good, acceptable and perfect will of God."
ReplyDeleteMay our heavenly Father find me of such mind.