Getting your mind right.

[IainH]

I've noticed that men in the westernized Christian Church spend a disproportionate amount of time fighting sin with their heads, mainly over sex. They reach an age where, whether through medications, disease or natural reduction in hormones, their libido diminishes to the point where they just don't care about sex. When this happens they start praising the Lord for getting their minds right. An old gent at church Wed night gave an excruciatingly long prayer thanking God for right thinking. I wanted to scream "You idiot! You've wasted your entire life focusing on something that is fallen, irreversibly broken and that no amount of praying, self flagellation, determination and rigorous self discipline will ever make right!" Man, I am so over that. It is the washing of the heart by the blood of the Lamb through faith given solely by God's grace that gives the Spirit a fit place to dwell. When that becomes the reality of your heart, you are able to see that the mind is just a blob of fallen grey sludge and wicked thoughts are what it does. Fighting bad thoughts through any medium but the heart is a sucker bet that you will always lose. Now I would like to convince some people of this truth but, I guess the time is yet to come, one day when I've been prepped the Lord will say "sicc 'em boy" and I will.