The Inner Dialogue Does Not Matter

Wow - does this take us forever or what?

For the longest time, I struggled with an inner dialogue, one based on fear of premonitions, upsets and dangers about bad things happening.

There was furthermore this incessant need to qualify, respond, or settle every mental upset in my life.

Today, I understand the true liberty, the full meaning of deliverance from self.

We need a new self, a new life, to be new creatures in Christ, a new creation free from our flesh, or hurts, and the habits and hang-ups which still seem to define us.

This world is obsessed with self, people looking at their own thoughts and feelings, trying to fix or remove any trace of discomfort.

This is not the way to live. This is not life at all.

This sham culture of self-help is making people helpless. It needs to stop.

How obsessed so many of us have become, looking at the thoughts and feelings, trying to fight away the latent anger, lust, fear, etc.

Let us stop looking within, but without, where we find Jesus, without whom we can do nothing (John 15: 5):

"17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18But 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." (2 Corinthians 3: 17-18)

Why do we care what we are thinking or feeling? It really doesn't matter.

It does not matter, because our identity is in Christ, not in ourselves:

"1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3: 1-4)

This is an incredible sense of freedom, one in which there is no longer any puzzling or fear about tomorrow, wondering how we may or may not feel, and whether those sentiments will somehow set back our loving Father from living in our lives.

There is no freedom from condemnation in our feelings. All of this freedom is bound up in the truth of God's Word, which declares all things on our behalf, regardless of our current knowledge of perception.

The inner dialogue does not  matter, because we have the eternal word of the living God, which declares: "I will never leave you nor forsake you." (Hebrews 13: 5) and also reminds us: "You have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 1: 3)