Friday, 20 July 2012
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Getting Past the Inner Voice
I would think all people have inner voices. Some hear them, others picture their ramblings and others experience them as moods. These inner voices are I believe from our past, imprints from others that latch onto us like parasites and live off of our moods and restlessness. The voices don’t lie, they speak, or replay the truth they believe, but trustworthy they are not. We either have a relationship with these voices, or they will have a controlling association with us.
When hearing these inner promptings, they need not be believed nor acted upon. However they must not be made into an enemy, for at bottom, they are there to protect us, and perhaps there was a time in life when some of these voices were needed, but their time passes, but their strength can grow.
We are called to love ourselves, to love what God sees, which is everything within us, no matter how well buried. To embrace and not fight our compulsive inner darkness, but to present to the Lord as our gift, the only bequest we can truly give, which is our inability to grow and heal without grace and mercy.Moral agendas are not what we are called to; we are called to a new life, one of love and of allowing Jesus’ healing into our hearts. True morality flows from understanding the love that God has for all of us, without exception. This leads us to truly understand what Jesus meant when he stated: "Whatsoever you do to the least of these, you do unto me”.
When truly loving, we plant seeds within all whom we meet and as we mature, we begin to see their oneness, or perhaps we see Christ oneness with them. When we love one another, we allow that oneness to grow and deepen and bear fruit. We plant and God waters, others have planted seeds of life in us and we spread the word by allowing the love and kindness of Christ Jesus to grow in us.
What is your inner voice telling you? When has your inner voice said something to you that you shouldn't have believed?
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Comments (3)
The Bible never told us to distrust our inner voice completely. After all, God created us as we are, we have the kind of inner voice which is different from other species'. Our choice of faith also comes from an inner voice which answers to Christ's calling. We are to test all spirits that come to us, not throw God out with the others. I hope this helps.
Mark: What absolute unmitigated garbage. When was the last time you sat down and read your bible?
@nowayout001@xanga - AGREED Sister!!
@Biblerapture@xanga - Mark is a Roman Catholic, so He will fallow church traditions which may or may not fallow what we Evangelicals are taught from the Word.
That being said, and having studied in the Roman Catholic for two years- never and I do mean NEVER in that time, was I ever instructed to "To embrace and not fight our compulsive inner darkness." That is real unmitigated garbage!
I'll give Mark the benefit of of the doubt (with MUCH GRACE) that this was not maybe what he was trying to convey.
Having gone through real professional Christian inner healing (not within the Catholic Church), you have to bring into the Lord's Light the sins of those who harmed you and your own and present them to the Lord. They are in a sense a "gift." because you are laying that burden down at His feet for His intervention and healing.
When one is deeply hurt, in our wicked fallen state we would rather stay mad and seek revenge. But that is how wars are started. The Lord tells us plainly in His Word that vengeance is His, He will repay. Our job is to offer forgiveness. Most often though when one is seriously hurt, they keep the hurt inside and avoid it. Which has a more negative effect. It shows a total lack of trust in the Lord. That limits His healing in your life and leaves a foothold for Satan to play with later.
Forgive us our sins just like we forgive those who sin against us. That we may not be led into temptation, but be delivered from evil. Is what the Word of God teaches. Because if you don't forgive and offer healing grace to others. How can the Lord forgive you and offer you the same grace? Matthew 6:12-14
If one should listen to ANY voice at all it should be the Lord's - and you can find that in His Word. All other voices are fallen and not to be fully trusted, for only God is perfect and perfectly trustworthy! Only if a voice is in accord with the Word can it be trusted!