Are You Brainstained?

    I said to myself concerning the sons of men, "God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts." (Ecclesiastes 3:18 KJV)

    Do you ever talk to yourself? I'm not asking about insane mumblings or whispered narration of tasks you are performing. Solomon often uses the expression -- I said to myself... What are you saying to yourself? What is the inner voice that provides a narrative of life as it passes by saying to you? Is it opposing God and Godly thought or affirming God and Godly thought?

   Ever hear the term "brainwashing"? I just Googled it. Here's how Wikipedia defines it -- Brainwashing (also known as thought reform or as re-education) consists of any effort aimed at instilling certain attitudes and beliefs in a person — beliefs sometimes unwelcome or in conflict with the person's prior beliefs and knowledge, in order to affect that individual's value system and subsequent thought-patterns and behaviors.

 

    Is your brain stained? Are you allowing your mind to continuously deepen the stain, or are you washing it with the Word of God? God needs to quiet the -- I said to myself... voice in our heads, and replace it with an ear tuned to the inner voice in our hearts, the voice of the Holy Spirit.

  Could your faith life use some thought reform? Continuous spiritual improvement requires  tuning into God's voice, and a simultaneous tuning out of the inner shouting which childishly demands our attention to its unending stream of worldly opinions. We cannot wash our own brains clean of sin stains. Jesus has to do that. The mind cleansing Word says -- He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior. (Titus 3:5,6)

Where are your thoughts unreformed? Where is your brain stained? Are there areas of thought where you have giving up and stopped scrubbing? Is there a part of you that you've allowed your inner voice to convince you Jesus is impotent to transform? Open the Word. Pray. Scrub your brain stains. Tune in to God. Tune out yourself.

And He was saying to them, Take care what you listen to... (Mark 4:24)

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