Your mind, with all it’s knowledge, assumptions and beliefs, is just a tool of the soul.
I dearly love the work of our dear Sister Wildcucumber. I find her sweet voice worthy of harmonizing with my baritone.
The dominant thread of Post-Enlightenment Western thinking is that our knowledge of facts is always incomplete and our beliefs are adjustable. The assumption is that beliefs are subject to the final judgment of facts/truth. This approach assumes that reality is self-existent and self-consistent. In theory, at least, we could discover the facts and change our beliefs accordingly.
Without the least hesitation, I tell you that is flat out wrong. The facts of reality only appear static in the sense of trustworthy. The biblical approach is that our reality is always fungible, that God can remake His Creation on-the-fly, and sometimes He’ll allow us to witness that process. Most of the afore-mentioned Westerners assume simply that they have seen something they do not yet understand, which is true, but the difference is that they never will understand on this plane of existence. The so-called laws of physics are subject to God’s whims.
Rather than chase out all the implications of that, let’s just realize that such is the basis for Sister Wildcucumber’s lesson today. Your mind is not capable of discerning the ultimate truth of reality. It can only formulate a working hypothesis moment by moment. More, it is utterly impossible that your working hypothesis at any moment bears any relation to what it is, or ought to be, for someone else. Exploring the ideas and beliefs of others is a chance to break old habits and allow your mind to formulate yet another approach to implementing what God speaks in your heart.
Ideas, thoughts, beliefs — this is the traffic of the mind and cannot be sacred. All of it is fungible and should be treated as such. It’s not a question of guessing over and over until you approach the ultimate facts of reality, but a question of opening new routes to obedience. The only ultimate truth that matters is moral truth, the relative importance of things in God’s mind. If your spirit has been awakened, His mind is in you. It’s alive and active and sharper than any cutting implement you can find (Hebrews 4:12). You can, and surely must, learn to trust that ineffable force in your soul driving you to seek His glory. You cannot ever hope to actually understand; you cannot possibly encompass it with your intellect.
The mind cannot grasp the fullness of reality. It’s not a question of intelligence; no IQ will ever be high enough because the mind operates on the wrong plane of existence. It is confined to this world and will never slip over into the higher realm. So feel free to sample other beliefs, to try them on. It won’t hurt anything unless something in your heart warns you.
Teach your mind to listen to your heart.
