A Facebook memory popped up on my feed the other day. It was a short video of a carpenter showcasing some of his fine skills in manipulating a piece of wood.
I’ll share the video here as this will allow you to understand the basis of what is to follow. You can check this out as well if you don’t have Facebook.
If someone told you today that you are able to bend a straight piece of wood into curves and circles one would think the person has lost his marbles. Your mind is shaped into a belief system that wood is hard and is not bendable. Your first reaction would most probably be to advise this person, to rather seek alternative methods or material, to obtain the desired effect he is in need of.
I think many believers today are like this. We find it unacceptable to change our mind and belief systems when something pops up that shakes that foundation of what we believe in.
Because our past experience has shaped our minds and thoughts. The experience of touching a piece of wood makes it a fact that the shape of wood cannot be changed in to a moldable form. Our nervous system has been programmed by what we could touch, feel, smell and taste. (Now don’t go taste the wood people!) #Disclaimer
We struggle to let go and we desperately want to hold onto what we believe in. To what we have been taught.
When we are faced with this “new shaking of the foundation” as I call it, we immediately rise up against it, judge it and allow our ego man to shun it away. Naturally our first reaction would be to start bold declarations that this is not something from God.
What would happen if we could step out of our ego? Out of that part that would keep us from not fully handing over the reigns to God. What if we can embrace without judgment and fear and completely let go? What if we can explore this revelation by sitting with God and having this conversation with Him?
Imagine how we can experience such a deep level of God’s presence and love when all of a sudden you realize that experiencing the new is so profoundly transforming.
Now you will ask how the heck does wood and God come together.
It’s a very good question. I don’t really know.
I would like to jump off the platform from my last blog R100 Faith. Following that blog, I had an onslaught from things that went wrong. I asked God what’s up with this? My car broke. My washing machine “konked” in. My microwave waved at me and started to cough. The leaking tap.. you get the idea. It was two weeks of just having enough. How do I get myself out of this pattern? My usual reaction would be to start working on a new batch of Grey hair and some more frown lines on my forehead.
Instead of all this I need to work on a new frame of mindset. I need to not look at the list of all the things that break and go wrong. My nervous system needs to be juggled a bit to form a new pattern. If I am in a disbelief pattern (Bending a straight piece of wood) I will get nowhere. I will go around the same circle over and over again and I will not gain any headway in change. The change that I can do anything through Christ who gives me strength.
I explained earlier that when our belief system is changed we see things in different ways. What will happen if we stretch our minds outside of the “same old way of doing things” that what we have been taught?
I would like to ask where do I sign up. I hold my Father’s hand as He guides me through His ways. By letting go of old belief systems which held me back. If I allow YHWH to change me into what He has created me to be. Then how can it be wrong? He is the creator of ALL things. He can reveal ways to bend a piece of wood.
Looking at this video. God showed me that changing how I look at things allows me to accept the things He has always made available to us can be so freeing. It’s at this point that healing and transformation comes. That we are set free and transformed from striving and doing things in our own strength.
How much more rewarding can it be to let go of old mindsets and just allow ourselves to be stretched and shaped by God. Just imagine the possibilities!
Loved this!