Courage is waking into a
nightmare, seeking God for the rectification, and deciding to act.
Courage takes us
from the chasm of the abyss into a lusher heartland of salubrious content, but
not without negotiating much threatening terrain on the way.
Waking is an
unknown; the subconscious is the operating system until the conscious mind can
gain a grip of awareness, where awareness
is key:
Some
mornings I wake,
And need to say, “For goodness sake!
Step out of this messy thinking,”
But then somehow I’m stirred,
By God I know I’m heard,
He Who lifts me out of my sinking.
And need to say, “For goodness sake!
Step out of this messy thinking,”
But then somehow I’m stirred,
By God I know I’m heard,
He Who lifts me out of my sinking.
Just how does this
work? It is the matter of awareness that gives us the impetus and persuasion to
do something different. We only need to be aware of the chasm – its presence
before us and its passage into the abyss – and then to choose courage and we
have everything we need. And God is our awareness.
He Who steps with us
is with us, always.
To be stirred within
– and to know that stirring is the Holy Spirit in me – is of great comfort. I
don’t fix myself, God fixes me.
***
More often these
days I’m given to wonderful thoughts of plans for the day upon waking. What a ‘lucky’
life. But I’m still reminded every now and then, as the subconscious claws its
way into conscious being, that I’m at the mercy of my circumstances – that I’m
not so ‘mature’ as to “consider it pure joy” when I suffer trials of many
kinds.
How thankful I ought
to be. But I, like you I suspect, am prone to forgetting the place of gratitude
for my life.
Freedom of mind is
joy to find.
And to gain that
freedom it’s up to me to arrest that thinking, first by awareness, because God
has stirred me, and secondly by courage to make a decision.
The decision to walk
into the light, away from the abyss, is soaked in wisdom.
Awareness of the
light and the courage to walk: these are what we need. God procures the first,
and I must decide for the second. I add to God’s faithfulness my faithfulness
to obey.
***
QUESTIONS in REVIEW:
1. What do you struggle with most:
awareness or courage?
2. How does God stir you? How do you
decide to break free of messy thinking?
3. What are you
grateful for, today?
© 2015 S. J. Wickham.
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