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ESCAPING FROM THE TRAP OF THE MIND

Introduction:

    Have you ever experienced the instances when you know what God tell you to think and perceive the matter of the world but cannot do so as the Bible say? For instance, once I was angry with my wife for some little thing. At that time, I knew I should forgive her. I knew that it is no good to be angry for a long time and for that small matter. But I knew it was wrong for me to think badly of her but I couldnˉt escape from the trap of the mind in angrying her. How can I get rid of that? Take for another example, you know that you shouldnˇt be sad or depressed for a certain things because God knows it and cares. You know that but you are still depressed and be unhappy. How can we get rid of the trap ? How can I apply the Bible to my everydaylife?

The key points to note:

    Our mind is full of many voices, many complex voices influencing our life. It is like entering a hall with many little children that are shouting and so you can hardly be peaceful with that. How can we handle with that moment? Voices in our mind are roughly divided into two types: Godly and worldly voices(Rome 7:23). We often give our attention to the worldly voices that we often neglect the Godly ones. For instances, when I am angry with my wife, my inner voices would repeat and repeat the things happened, how my wife treated me badly, how the things can become better if she did better, what should she do........etc. My mind would be full of that kind of voices. Many bad points towards my wife are created.And I pay much attention to those voices also(Rome 8:7). It is actually our own responsibility to make ourselves deep down into the trap. So, many people like to think over and over again of their bad situation, many cannot forget the sins of others, many are jealous all the time, many like to pursue money all the time,.........We tend to think and dwell into the trap of the worldly mind. Our focus is wrong . It is just like planting some seeds into the soil. The more you dwell into a certain voice, the more you cultivate the plant. After a long time. The plant would be so rooted into the soil that you canˉt get the plant out of the soil. So, your mind would be polluted by the sinful voices. Therefor, if we are in misery, self-pity is sin!! If we are mistreated, angrying with others for a long time is a sin!! .......etc.

So, the solution is clear:

  1. Get away yourselves from the sinful voices as early as possible. Donˉt dwell yourselves too much into the voices. Otherwises, you repeat and repeat the voices and create even more sinful voices out of themYour mind would like a tape recorder that it records more and more how you say to yourselves. No, get away from the voices as early as possible. So, when you are angry, pray to God that you want to get yourselves out of the sinful thinking(Rome 7:25) .. But very important is to SHOUT to your mind that you donˇt want to think like that, using the MOST of your ENERGY. (Psalm 103:1,2). It is just like shouting to a group of children in a hall ,¨ Shut up! Be silence!〃. I find it is extremely useful to uprooting the thinking habit that are rooted so deeply in my mind. They are like a big tree planted in the soil of my mind. It causes me a lot of energy to get rid of the tree. So, when you feel self-pity and tend to think negatively, just shout to yourselves,¨donˉt think like that ! I want to think the Godly thinking!〃
  2. Direct yourselves to the voices of God, no matter how little sound it is. I remember that occasion when I was angry with my wife. I was angry with her for nearly the whole morning. But then I remembered the keys cited above. So, I started to force myself to Bible study . But then , I found my heart changed. My heart were delighted by the discovery from the Bible, even the thing discovered was not directly related to the conflict before. I praised the Lord, my mind is paying more attention to the Godly voices (Col 3:2). My attention is focused in the things of God. I nearly forgot what the things happened.
    It is important to note that the things of God is vast and wide (See the praises of Psalm 105). The whole voices from God is unlimited. It is just like flying a plane high above the sky, looking more and more the beauty of the world high above.. We fly through a forest, we fly through a valley, we fly through a desert, we fly through a beautiful stream, we fly through the vastness of the ocean,.....The things of God are so wide and deep that we have not enough time to think and search the wisdom of God in our limited life (Prov 2:4-5). Why donˉt we force our focus into the vastness of God instead of paying attention to the ugly, dirty, insignificant and dreadful voices? Thatˇs why the psalmists praised God all the time. They dwelled into the beauty of God all day long. They forgot all their miseries but they were immersed in the beauty of God

But donˉt misunderstand:

It is not to advocate to forget all the things happened in the world. It is intended to encourage you to let the mind dwelling the Godly voices at most of the time of the day. Donˉt let the mind dwelling on the sinful voices when our mind is so unguarded when we are working in the day. But we should bring the matter again when we come to God in solitude(Psalm 22:1). At that time, our mind would be well guarded. Our energy would be fully charged at that time so we can deal with those dirty voices one by one by the powerful word of God(Eph 6:17). At that time, we have the spiritual sword in our hand. We can evaluate what our mind think and meditate what Jesus think if he is in the same situation. We can use the Holy sword to fight the dirty voices one by one. On the other hand, if we bring the matter over and over again in our mind when we are unguarded in the noisy and disturbing environment, it is easy to be won and mastered by the dirty voices.

Certain Godly things worthy to be dwell on all day long:

I suggest you to FORCE yourselves always to think the following things so that the attention is shifted not into the pagan voices but in the Godly voices. In this regard, we are like planting a Godly tree in our garden of our mind. Our mind would be accustomed to think in a Godly way. The fruits would be produced shortly afterwards: (Psalm 1:2,3).

  1. Always give thanks and praise to God to everything we see, we hear, we touch and we notice
  2. Always prayer for others all day long so that our mind is accustomed to be other centred instead of self-pre-occupation.
  3. Always ask yourselves, ¨what would Jesus do and think if he were me?〃

So, a short conclusion:

It is a battle . It needs much effort and energy to calm down a class with so many naughty boys. But it worths because it pleases God and gain eternal reward. To make it short and clear, the following points are cited again.

  1. Often charge with great ENERGY to direct ourselves away from the dirty voices towards thinking the Godly things at the time of the day. Shouting to our soul is inevitable.

2. bing the dirty voices to God and think thoroughly at the solitude time to God.

HOPING THAT YOUR MIND IS ALWAYS PURE & GODLY !!