Work In Progress: The Mind

It is so tempting to wait to share my work. I want it to look exactly as it does in my mind, so that you too can see what I see. But, life does not always work that way.

It’s a work in progress.

So today, I’m letting you into my sketch book, where I am fleshing out what my mind is wrestling with. Because I don’t want to miss out on conversation that could happen today. I want to be able to offer encouragement, even ifthrough imperfect mediums. 

So welcome to my imperfect mind. I hope you can relate. 

For some time now, I have been asking for ‘the mind of Christ’. Scripture promises this to those who call upon Jesus to save them. But often, it seems so far from me.

I am tormented by indecisiveness and uncertainty . Lust for sin, fear, envy and general oppression. The fight for control over my thoughts is a daily war, sometimes hourly. I often retreat to solitude places where I can take a deep breath and not allow my surroundings to dictate the thoughts in my mind. Or, more often than I’d like to admit, I will turn to meaningless things to distract me so I don’t have to deal with it at all.

Being a visual person, I have found that my mind reacts to what I see, often involuntarily. I have come to believe that this is why scripture is reassuring me to believe that I have the mind of Christ. Not because it becomes naturally to me, but because I must proclaim it over and over in order for the battleground to be reclaimed from the present darkness.

My prayer for those who view this piece is that they too can be reminded that their mind has been fought for, and won. Not by a passive victor, but by one who gave all. Submitting through pain and suffering and torment that we presently face so that we can claim FREEDOM over what otherwise would enslave us. The cross means freedom in my mind. 

He invites us to partake in the fight, but protects us by having already won it.

Oh friend, don’t let your heart be troubled, for light has come into the world, and darkness will not overcome it.

Here’s to walking through the process together, and trusting that the work will be complete to its fullest perfection in time.