Great ideas come from thinkers. Great revelations come from thinkers. We need to stop sometimes to think.
This is a truth that God gave me today that I am slowly grasping. I'm a doer. There are so many things to get done and I am always checking something off my list. I have realized for quite some time now that my list is never done. Every time I cross one thing off, I am adding three more things. I am what you would call a type A person. A doer. I cannot relax until my work is done. I have had this syndrome since childhood and I do believe I received it from my mother's genes.
I recently read a book by John C. Maxwell called, Thinking For A Change. In this book, John Maxwell tells a story that really fascinated me. Here it is, more or less how I remember it. He said he was walking through the halls of a corporation when he looked in an office and saw a woman sitting in a chair looking out a window. He saw nothing else in the office. No desk. No computer. No trash can. Nothing, just a chair and a woman and a window. When he asked why there was no desk or computer in this office, the person with him told him that this woman gets paid to think. In fact, her last idea made them millions. Imagine that. Getting paid to think. I barely have time to think. Maybe that's my problem.
In God's Word it tells us to meditate on Jesus (He is the Word). Thinking is definitely part of meditating. I try to meditate on a verse or two every day. And do you know what? When I meditate on a verse, God always gives me more revelation about that verse. It amazes me every time. Here is the verse I meditated on today from the King James Version:
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Here it is in the Amplified Bible:
2 Corinthians 3:18
And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit.
And here is what God put on my heart while I was thinking about this verse and asking God questions about this verse:
After you get saved (unveiled, under grace and not under law anymore), while you are reading about the glory of the Lord in God's Word, believing in your heart that as He is so are you in this world, meaning that you are actually seeing yourself when you see Jesus, His Spirit is transforming you into His image. It is you seeing you as Jesus is in God's eyes, no matter how you feel or what you see. That is what it takes for God's Spirit to transform you into the very image of Christ.
What a revelation!!! What a truth!!! God's Word says that the truth will set you free. Jesus is grace and truth and he will set you free from the law, from bondage, but that will only happen if you see yourself in this world AS HE IS. If you see yourself as you are, you stay in bondage to the law, because you will continue to try to change yourself and you will, for the most part, fail. Even if you succeed at times, you will feel prideful and may even turn your nose up to those who are failing at the time. But most of the time you will fail and you will feel like a miserable wretch. Either way, that is not freedom. FREEDOM IS SEEING YOURSELF IN THIS WORLD, AS HE IS.
1 John 4:17
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is so are we in this world.
So my advice to you and to me is to take time out every day to think. Especially to think about Jesus and to mediate on His Word, because Jesus is truth and grace, and we need all the truth and grace we can get.
