My writes

Since last Monday, I have moved into a new role. However, the remnants of my previous role keeps haunting me. But that doesn't mean that I still hold my previous job title, because as far as I know, I am already into my new role with a new title, a new boss and a new future to look forward too. I also know that as I make a concious effort to give my best to my new role, the remnants of the old role will slowly fade into the background and in no time I will be totally immersed with the new job. I know I will never progress forward if I kept myself busy with the remnants even though I now have a new job title.

It is likewise with our walk with God. The reborning experience is sometimes hard to feel and appreciate because of past memories that keeps haunting us. Unless we make a concious effort to die to ourselves, take up our cross daily and follow him (Luke 9:23), we will never be able progress to be enter the freedom realm that God intends for our lives.

We are emotional beings, and knowing sometimes does not always tally with our feelings. It is interesting to note that Jesus says know, not feel, the truth, and it shall set you free. It is also interesting that God gave many examples of his servants in the Bible who struggle with the same issue that we face. If you notice, the Bible is not only a collection of wisdom sayings, but also a collection of characters' complaints and character pitfalls. In that way, the Bible is not mechanical in imposing dos and don'ts but it has a relational appeal that we may find it relevant.

As humans, our lives and its reality is built around a cognitive association of memory collections from as far back as we can remember. Every word spoken to us, anything that we've seen, what we've heard and all those information that is swinging by our way are essential building blocks to our memory. You are unique because your experiences will never ever be the same with the person sitting next to you. What determines how we feel today and our future achievements (or failures for that matter) is how we interpret and extrapolate our collective cognition to date. That is why trauma patients are often paranoid individuals who constantly paint a reality that does not exist and extrapolates a and off-tangent distorted future that encages themselves within it.

The keyword here is intepret and extrapolate. How we interpret and extrapolate begins with the model of the mindset. Change the model of your mindset, you change your how you interpret and extrapolate, you change your actions/behaviour pattern and you finally change your destiny. The world also provides a model through pop psychology and new age philosophies that profess to know the solution to mankind's mental struggle. The pitfall of current worldview model is...well...it is only current. It implies relativity to a specific group of people in a specific era. It has not absolute standards. Jesus came so that we may have life. He gave us a model - the truth of God's Word.

Given that God says that His Word shall not pass away, it is the same yesterday, today and forever, and given that His Kingdom to come is forever, it is a no-brainer that we should be adopting a model that is absolute and timeless. What is your reality? How are you extrapolating your live ensuring that it lands in the Kingdom of God?