Mindsets

Havent blogged in a really long time.. exams finished last thursday... yaaay.... haha... i just wanna blog something that is sort of a continuation to my previous post regarding the new thing that the Lord is doing, and that it allowing us to see from a new perspective.. earlier on this year, the Lord was showing me the whirlwinds that would bring about changes in our lives.. little did i know that i would go through them too and that once we're through and the Lord alters our perspectives, we would come out seeing things very differently and acting and reacting to them very differently...

Like how the Lord used a small incident today to show me lotsa things that He wanted to work in into my life.. when i got onto the bus. i was praying and the Lord began to deal with me, showing me how insecure i was and how much i needed some form of affirmation from an external source and how much it affects me.. like from one little incident, He could reveal so much that was going on in my life... once God changes our perspectives, we'll go through situations and view them differently.. we'll begin to ask ourselves the question of why we do what we do, why we say what we say and why we act how we act... very soon, when we want to assess a situation or evaluate how good/bad an event turned out, we won't go around blaming others but we'll first check ourselves, even as we allow the Holy Spirit to search our hearts and reveal to us the condition of our hearts.. That's how we grow..

One of the areas in which the Lord was speaking to me recently was regarding the area of my perfectionism... The Holy Spirit told me "Do you know that perfectionism is a mindset?" and when He said that, my eyes were open to the truth that many times, i want to be perfect and i measure myself against that absolute standard instead of simply measuring myself according to what God requires of me.. there's a difference.. and that's why many times i end up feeling guilty at making mistakes/failing.. cos i see things from that perfectionist perspective... and it also means that once my own expectations of being perfect is met, then i don't need to depend on Him already... which is a bad thing cos God always wants our dependence on Him, not on ourselves...

And many times, the way we see ourselves and judge ourselves is the way we see and judge others.. cos the Bible says that with the measure we use, it shall be measured unto us.. The Lord has been dealing with me on this too.. cos many times, i see other people from this perfectionist mindset too and i become judgemental and critical and negative.. but when God sets us free from these mindsets, then not only are we free ourselves but others around us will be free too and we'll be able to be a more effective blessing to their lives.. we'll know the grace and nature of God ourselves and be able to administer it to others, even as we are able to see Him more clearly..

satan wants to distort our perceptions.. cos that's the way we end up seeing God.. Romans 1 says that God's divine nature and qualities have been revealed through creation.. so satan wants man to pervert creation so that their image of God becomes distorted.. we see an image of God through our parents.. so satan wants to corrupt our relationships with them and perceptions of them so our image of God becomes distorted.. but we have a high calling.. man is called to steward the revelation of God cos God gave us creation through which He reveals Himself... but creation is just a shadow of His glory.. as great as it may be, cannot contain everything that God is cos He's far greater! if that is such a great and awesome responsibility, what more the fact that we as Christians are called to steward the revelation of Jesus Christ who is the very expressed image of the invisible God??! That's gotta blow our minds...

The bottom line: the way we see is important, the way we see God, others, the situations around us is important cos if we are tuned rightly to God, everything can be the media by which God broadcasts Himself to us... Many times, we are led astray by the things of the world which is just plain deception.. it's all just futile and meaningless.. i'm not really that old but i kinda gone through a lot and experimented here and there.. but i realised it's all deception.. even the "cool" things that suppose to make you happy or the "not-necessarily-bad" things like food clothes and shopping.. i realised how futile they can be... we need eyes to see how they are really meaningless compared to the revelation of who God is.. and that is what we'll be able to take into eternity.

Another truth that God was highlighting to me recently was when i was praying for a greater capacity to know Him.. and He was showing me that He has already given us the capacity.. but we don't see it, we don't live in it.. why? cos we live in a box.. we box Him up.. we box ourselves up.. and the walls of these boxes are made up of perceptions and midsets that are not in line with the truth.. outside of these boxes are darkness.. they're darkness to us while in fact, they can be the life and excitement of our walk with God.. he has given us the power to experience to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that we may be filled to the measure of the fulness of God (Eph 3)... So mu question is this... are our midsets limiting God and what He can do in and through us?

These mindsets gotta come down...