.MEDITATIONS
The following entries will come from my study in the Bible and thoughts resulting from such with reflections from our life's work.
Far From The Civilized World
. November 18, 2014
At present I struggle with two Spiritual realities. The one, is my nature to do for myself what I please as I please. I understand the power of free expression and that driving need that seeks to make itself known, and to be understood and know, I know my ego needs and ambitions. They do not require translation into any foreign language, as this nature is shared by all mankind .
Every face nears it's own humanity with hope and disappointment , joys , triumphs and pain. The human condition.
Of the struggle then is the reality we are spiritual and there is certainly the truisms we submit too, convinced Or otherwise, So we have our human nature , then we have a spiritual nature enlivened by the Spirit of God Who is bringing light toour minds through the Bible. Consider, the Scripture , "... Our foolish minds were darkened"
So where is the conflict?
I liken it in the setting of a Theatre. As I see it, we act out and involve, and are persuaded of our engagements first by our minds, the mind is us, what we think becomes who we are and what we do and react too, in essence what we
Dwell upon".
Let's not leave it there. The struggle is a collision with the Will.
We all have one. Can we consider who rules who?
Does the Mind rule the Will?
Does the Will indeed rule the Mind?
It appears to me from study we must submit our Will to the reinforced and enlightened Mind changed and made alive to God by His Light , see John 10 Jesus is THE light.
If I have the wealth of this world or a modest representation of it, why yet does conflict hamper my way with shadows of discontent?
As I increase in learning, why yet does the insatiable desire for more leave me wanton and beggarly??
I seek to know wisdom, but is spend countless hours on acquiring knowledge.
In the summation of this inquiry,
I will submit to the reading of the bible as an appropriate Act of Wisdom and submission.
For this moment of Time, the struggle of the Will becomes quieted as a nursed child.
Shonda Davis
