Last night when I was praying before bed I had this image of my brain as a hard drive and over the course of my less than holy life a great many things are stored there that I wish weren't there. I was thinking how nice it would be for God to be able to delete those files and eradicate the pathways to find even a trace of them ever again. The other option is to do a complete re-format of the drive and erase everything that is there.
I think what I am up against is the understanding of the participation required in sanctification, what CS Lewis referred to as the two blades of a scissors. The scissors won't operate properly without both blades working together. We aren't to be passive in sanctification, becoming more like Jesus. In our epistle reading yesterday we read this from Philippians 4.8: "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things."
God could reformat the hard drive of my brain and wipe out everything there and start all over again, but He wants me to do something about the problem, fill my brain with the things Paul is talking about and push that other stuff aside, make it more distant, less accessible and in the process, expose it in comparison with the true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, worthy of praise things, for what it is, not worth thinking about.
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