Held Hostage

Question to think about: Is your mind held hostage by limited thinking?

Three months before he died, Saint Thomas Aquinas said: “I can no longer write, for God has given me such glorious knowledge that all contained in my works are as straw - barely fit to absorb the holy wonders that fall in a stable.”

Think on what that Aquinas' statement means. What knowledge did Saint Thomas Aquinas refer to?

We often try to fit God into how we perceive life through our personal experience and reality which limits how we think. A limited mind-set holds our perception hostage and we fail to see more.
To see more . . .
to see beyond the limitations and constraints of circumstances . . .
we must seek God . . .
and ask God to break through what is perceived.

The break-through of a limited mind-set changes our perception, producing vision of something more. And, God always has something more. Faith that God has something more comes through an active and participating relationship with Christ:
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. (Philippians 2:1-2)
At first glance, being like-minded with Christ . . .
seems hard . . . .
and impossible.
But, look again, to be like-minded with Christ, is to be
released
and
freed from the weight of pressures and problems.

In reality, the process that releases us from the limitations that holds the mind hostage requires frequent attention with the intention to break free. The critical solution for release from a limited mindset is to invite Christ to move into all of the mind.

Continue the self-imposed spiritual boot camp to strengthen your mind . . . asking God to empower the way you think . . . to be like-minded with Christ . . . believing that God always has more.

Learning with you to be like-minded with Christ,

Kerrie
(All devotions written by Kerrie Palmer ©2009 All Rights Reserved)