The Master of My Pure Thoughts - Part IV
Let me start by saying that I have added the word PURE to this series because that’s actually what we need to master. All of us have a whole array of thoughts that we have gathered over the years and most of them are lies and illusions but our real peace is found when we are awakened to the reality that PURE THOUGHT has been with us from the beginning and will never leave us. I become the master of my pure thoughts when I believe this and allow my pure thoughts to reign.
I also have come to believe that for any of us to be the master of our PURE THOUGHTS we must understand our unique relationship to this universe.
Is it possible that absolutely nothing we think has any merit whatsoever? Is it possible that our thinking process is nothing more then our ego’s need to believe we really matter? All of us want desperately to believe that our individual lives have meaning that has everything to do with us and yet could we be totally and completely wrong about this?
Maybe the human race has far to great of an opinion about their place in this vast universe? Maybe we are nothing more then a colony of ants working feverishly to build something of greatness that is destined to be destroyed by the next great storm.
And so, What shall we do? I know for me the answer is certainly not to look to the world of religion for any answers. Religion offers the great pie in the sky, a place in heaven where all our dreams come true and yet look what religion has brought to earth……….war, hatred, division, pain, suffering, judgments, condemnation, & a portrait of God that brings fear to the hearts of all that will believe.
For me the answer is to be found in believing that I was created from THOUGHT and within me is the same pure thought that holds all of this vast universe together. I don’t own it, I didn’t create it, and this wonderful thing called pure thought that lies within me has nothing whatsoever to do with my ego. When I think it does I find myself lost. When i see myself separate and apart from who I am as an individual then I find life.
Luke 9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
What part of my life do I need to lose? For me it’s about losing my individual identity with the thought that I am suppose to do something great, or be something great, or think something great. It’s about realizing that something great has already been inside me from the beginning and that same something great is inside every single part of all of God’s creation. We are one because that’s what we ARE!
I don’t believe it’s WHAT WE THINK THAT MATTERS, but rather what we believe about our thoughts that matter. I know that seems kind of a contradiction but allow me to try and explain.
When I believe that PURE THOUGHT WAS, IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE the true ME it changes how I reflect on everything I do and believe. When I see others with this PURE THOUGHT (even if they don’t) it changes how I see them. When I realize that this perfect part of all us can never be threatened, harmed, or destroyed, it removes all fear.
This PURE THOUGHT I am talking about is not something you can learn about or even teach yourself. All you can do is acknowledge it which will always bring PEACE. Or you can go on living in the illusion of your own ego thinking that YOU can make a difference——YOU WILL FAIL. Unfortunately the organized church always plays to your ego and that’s why you will always be left wondering in the dessert of unbelief.
Being a TRUE BELIEVER does not gain you PURE THOUGHT but it does gain you a PEACE that is beyond understanding.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
The "WORLD" Jesus was talking about in that verse was the religious world. The PEACE he gives to us comes from trusting in THE PERFECT PLAN OF GOD.
Cliff
Interesting thoughts. I think im going to think on them a while
John T……I will be looking foward to hearing your pure mind on this.
There is a little piece of God inside each of us called the soul. When we can relate with each other on the basis of the soul, rather than our individual egos, we have the experience of oneness with all of creation that you are describing. Living out of our egos brings division and war with others, as you said. What you are calling “pure thought” is what others have called “the soul”, at least that is what it sounds like to me. The challenge is to set aside ego and live out of the soul, which brings unity rather than division in any setting, whether it’s in the church, the home, the workplace, or even on a national or global scale.
Connie,
As always you make good sense. There are reasons I don’t use the word soul and maybe down the road I will give those reasons why.
I have recently been working hard to be the master of my thoughts. I am in total amazement of how much stronger I am becoming. I feel like my eyes are seeing things they have never seen before. Almost like I am seeing things I have always seen, but looking at them for the first time. Does that even make any sense? I am not quite sure how to put this into words, but what I can say is that I am able to get through tough times in a shorter amount of time. My moments of weakness are short and sweet and what I learn in those moments I feel are going to last for a life time. I can change my thinking!! I can turn a negative into a positive rather then focusing on that negative and letting it get the best of who I am.
Maybe reality is whatever we think it is.
I mentioned to a friend of mine that I had a head cold. He asked me if he could pray for me, and I asked him “what would you pray for?” He said he would ask God that I be healed of my affliction. I responded, “I was healed of all my afflictions 2000 years ago.” This headcold was a gift from God and I intended to relish it. If I never felt “bad”, how could I ever know when I was feeling “good”? Please don’t mess with God’s creation. He did good, and I want to enjoy it. I said, “if you want to pray for something, pray for revelation in your own life… that you would abandon your focus on the law of good vs. evil (sin and death) and begin to understand the law of Life.”
He didn’t say much after that. I think he thought I was a crackpot.
Hey Bruce
I guess, like a seed, you have to crack before you grow.
“Maybe reality is whatever we think it is.”
Bruce, my brother, sometimes, just when I begin to think we may be on separate pages, you say something like that. As the kids say, “You rock, Bruce!”
Don, I can’t help but think we’re ALL on separate pages, but, thank God… in the same book!
John, my friend would say… “a cracked pot holds no water.”
I’m OK with that. His peace of mind is more important than my reputation. I would gladly give up everything that I am to help him understand his place in this universe. Come to think of it, isn’t that what Jesus did?
Brings a whole new light to WWJD, huh?
But a cracked pot waters ALL along the path of life!
SELAH
Geo
Geo
I had a great experience at Church this sunday. I listened to our senior Pastors wife speak and though I know she is a believer in eternal damnation, there was something different about the way she spoke this time. It was softer and more loving. Now I have been doing tons of questioning of their doctrine and whether or not they are interpreting it right, and I couldnt help but wonder if maybe, just maybe it had an effect. Maybe being a cracked pot myself, I poured some water on the flames of hell
John T.
I hope you did John. I sure hope you did!!!!
John T……all you can do is plant the seed. I planted it for 35 years in the organized church without much luck, but then again who knows when the seed takes affect.
Cliff
I think probably there is more opportunity now, just because there is more access to information, than there was in your time in the church. I am fortunate that our Lead Pastor is only 34 yrs. old. And on top of that he is not very conservative. I know he tows the party line outwardly, but my guess is inwardly its much different. Anyways one of my “giftings” is being a catalyst ;)……………..always fun watching those chemical reactions.
John T…..you have my best pure thoughts going out to all you do and say.