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I
agree Jeffery, and anxiety is something that we all battle with. As the
apostle says that when we get married we are going to add to our
temptation to be anxious. As believers we are aware of the temptations
to over indulge in all of the luxuries of this life, we are also tempted
to live as though we have a separate existence as private citizens in
which we live in an extremely computerized society were we are encouraged develop loneliness as a way of life. But because most of our views of
our minds in this culture are not really a result of what is going on
around us we tend to miss the struggle by focusing on these cultural
traps rather than taking control of our minds by meditation.
We will
find that within each one of us is an extreme danger of straying from
our first love. We are born again and we experience a profound sense of
freedom and we have such life in us that we are spiritually aware of the
worlds pull on us coming out of our former ways. Then we begin to
forget our first love, which happens in all churches and we begin to
live life adding our spiritual aliveness to our own set of responsibilities. We fail to see that our inner world is terribly in need
of constant attention. Because we were made to be totally dependent of
God, and we were made to have His life flow to us and through us so that
we not only are saved at a point and time but we are experiencing His
presence through His revelation, that we are to constantly fix our eyes
on the goal of our faith. When we take our eyes off of Christ we then
begin to stray from experiencing our first love.
This is a real
struggle to keep our eyes on Christ, because even as believers we
struggle with sin,fear, anxiety, distrust, depression, a sense of Gods
frown, and coveting things ,thinking that we can get relief from having
to face all of these negative realities going on in our minds and
hearts. We use the things of this world to keep ourselves from
experiencing a sense of loss that we experience as sinners. That is a
loss of joy, peace, comfort, kindness.
If we know that we are very
prone to stray from our first love then we are going to become more
active in trying to experience that original regenerated life. But as
we begin to long for the peace and joy we experienced in God, we begin
to increase our experience in sorrow. As we begin to learn more about
God in His word we begin to grow in our understanding of Christ work on
our behalf. The nearness of God that comes as a result of growing
increases our desires to know more of Him and so with that increase we
are prone to increase on the other side seeing that Him being our all in
all in a more profound way will also expose to us our deep need because
of our lack or ability on that bad experience side.
But there really
is a silver lining in our experiencing our inability because we learn
that through our inability we are enabled by Him to rejoice in Him with a
rejoicing that cannot be compared with anything in this world. We begin
to live with an eternal mindset. We begin to to see ourselves as more
needing of Him more and more, because we have experienced what it is to
have His Spirit speak peace to our souls in our anxiety, and display to
us in our experience by meeting our needs as a result of our longing for
His comfort. So that we begin to long for heaven , because we know that
just as He met our needs in our lack that one day we will have a full
experience of Him in meeting all of our needs so that our rejoicing will
be constant, unimaginable
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