I could be working on a project and all of the sudden a thought comes gushing through my mind. At one time I just let it push me around like the wind as the mind wondered recklessly at times were ever it wanted to.
The test: When you wake up in the morning and your mind is clear how long can you keep it that way? In other words after you first awaken you have no thoughts running through you. When you see or feel that first thought coming in just simply reject it. Better yet when the first random thought comes to mind resist it. Don’t let it in!
OK now that you have taken this test how long did you last before the random thoughts started to flow with or without you?
If you had any success holding off the random thoughts when you first woke up that’s great! This may have given you your first insight to just how strong the current of random thought flows within you.
This is just an exercise to show you that you are more than just a thought.
OK now what do you do next!
Begin to wade out of the stream of random thoughts and make your way to the shoreline. You’re now sitting at the shoreline watching the mighty river of your thoughts flow by you and realize you’re not struggling like you were before. There is a shift from being carried away to being an observer of the thoughts that flow past. As you settle in a new power is given or experienced within. You’re actually resting from the random thoughts of the mind! You’re no longer its slave! You see it now for what it is...It is the busyness of the mind disconnected from Christ within you!
So now you ask what is the shore? The shore to me is a part of the eternal life of Christ living within me…
To let go of the self is to live with Christ in me!
I am resting in Christ!
James 1:2-8 2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; 8he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
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