I'm in the process of learning lessons I never thought I would learn.
The thing is, I think we get so used to living our lives in a certain way that we don't expect there to be other options. At the moment I'm aware that God is teaching me about new ways of doing things. Specifically He's speaking to me about new ways of thinking. I've been so stuck in my old ways of thinking that my head is really struggling to get used to this new way.
The Bible tells us to 'be transformed by the renewing of your mind' and that's what I'm praying will happen for me. As God renews my mind I will be transformed, but equally as I actively seek to let my mind be renewed, God will do the transforming. It's tricky stuff!
God is revealing so much to me about this new way of thinking that I can barely take it in or process it...maybe that's the point. The fact that this new way of thinking is so different to what I'm used to means that it is going to come as some what of a shock to my system - and it is!
It's not really a new revelation, it's more that the truth of the revelation is sinking in. On the one hand it's really simple and on the other hand it's the most complex truth and completely incomprehensible.
Nothing I do changes the intensity of God's love for me. he is passionate about me always and about having a relationship with me.
Did you get that... absolutely NOTHING.
I was speaking to a young person today and she said something like 'it doesn't make sense that God would love me because I know what I'm like and I'm not all that' I had to agree with her and say 'yep, it doesn't make sense, but that doesn't mean it's not true.' We then had a great discussion about how we need to know and live in the good of what God thinks about us.
I'm so thankful that the TRUTH is not based on me or my feelings, but instead it's based on the one who never changes - where would we be without Him?!
So bear with me as I learn this lesson...it's going to take me a while.....!!!
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