Dearest blogger world;
let me humor you with a rather odd experience that happened to me today. I was sitting in my Calculus class concentrated on taking notes, and understanding limits when.... Suddenly! Inside my head the music from Beauty and the Beast starts raging loudly, you know, "Look there she goes that girl is strange no question, dazed and distracted can't you tell?.....Behind that fair facade I'm afraid she's rather odd, very different from the rest of us is Belle!" As this song is playing full swing in my mind, if that's not enough I'm imagining this whole scene where I'm Belle from that scene, singing and dancing around the classroom, while my classmates sing along, doing flips over the tables, and what not. Oh! Not to mention all the numbers, and formulas on the board about limits are coming to life and dancing around as well. Yeah, slightly ridiculous I know, and definitely feel free to laugh. However, this is a rather normal scenario. I've always had an active, curious, vivid, imagination. Which is a blessing, I'm thankful for it, but my concern is where does self control and taking every thought captive fit in with all of this?
I'll share one more silly example; when I was sixteen I had a "crush" on a guy who was in my french class. Naturally, being shy I couldn't just go up and say, "hey, how's it going". Instead on an occassion where my imagination totally ran wild I came up with an extremely silly, slightly crazy story about how he was a "part dragon". He could fly, talk to plants, and had to save all the farm birds in the world from the "farm bird extirminator". (Crazy! I know.) So in my mind the sane thing to do was to write him notes telling him he's a part dragon, talks to plants and has to save all the farm birds of the world. And that is exactly what I did, I wrote notes, and drew little pictures to go along, and left them on his desk before he'd come to class. That is just another example of a crazy daydreaming imagination going possibly a little too far.
2 Corinthians 10:5 says we are to "take every thought captive to obedience of Christ," which is what I started to think about when I finally pulled my head out of the clouds during my calculus class tonight. What are my thoughts usually focused on? Is always a good question to ask. It's a good thing for all of us to ask ourselves, not only those who are known to daydream and have crazy imaginations like myself, but for everyone. None of our friends or family members know our thoughts unless we tell them. So it is easy to fool ourselves into going through the motions, putting on a face to make everyone think what we want them to think, while in our mind something totally different is going on. When we do that though, it is hypocricy which is not at all pleasing to the Lord. God knows all things, He knows all our thoughts, all our motives, He knows the depths of our hearts when even we don't.
With that said, I think the answer on what constantly fix my mind on is scripture and Christ. When my imagination is running wild, and my head is in the clouds getting carried away to dreamland more than it should, the best thing for me to think on is scripture. And to ask for God's grace in fixing my mind on His Word and His son.
Colossians 3:16, "Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you...."
Psalm 119:105, "Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path"
Philippians 4:8, "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, what is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."
That is what I should think on. Especially when I am tempted to do otherwise, or when my mind is wandering down a crazy path where I can get carried away. Which often happens, and I praise God for the blessing of having an imagination because it makes everything much more fun for me. I do, however have to examine and be watchful of how far my daydreaming goes and be sure I'm purposing to fill my mind with the Word. Which I praise God for, He is so gracious to give us His Word. His innerant, infallable, living and active Word!
I just love Hebrews 4:12 "For the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart." Praise God that He's given us His living and active Word! What a display of His grace and love that He has given it to us, and praise Him that "....His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through truth and knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence."
What a gracious God! Praise Him!
Blessings dear blogger friends from a girl with a goofy imagination, wanting to continue to grow in Christlikeness, in love and knowledge of the Lord.
For the glory of Christ,
Willa
let me humor you with a rather odd experience that happened to me today. I was sitting in my Calculus class concentrated on taking notes, and understanding limits when.... Suddenly! Inside my head the music from Beauty and the Beast starts raging loudly, you know, "Look there she goes that girl is strange no question, dazed and distracted can't you tell?.....Behind that fair facade I'm afraid she's rather odd, very different from the rest of us is Belle!" As this song is playing full swing in my mind, if that's not enough I'm imagining this whole scene where I'm Belle from that scene, singing and dancing around the classroom, while my classmates sing along, doing flips over the tables, and what not. Oh! Not to mention all the numbers, and formulas on the board about limits are coming to life and dancing around as well. Yeah, slightly ridiculous I know, and definitely feel free to laugh. However, this is a rather normal scenario. I've always had an active, curious, vivid, imagination. Which is a blessing, I'm thankful for it, but my concern is where does self control and taking every thought captive fit in with all of this?
I'll share one more silly example; when I was sixteen I had a "crush" on a guy who was in my french class. Naturally, being shy I couldn't just go up and say, "hey, how's it going". Instead on an occassion where my imagination totally ran wild I came up with an extremely silly, slightly crazy story about how he was a "part dragon". He could fly, talk to plants, and had to save all the farm birds in the world from the "farm bird extirminator". (Crazy! I know.) So in my mind the sane thing to do was to write him notes telling him he's a part dragon, talks to plants and has to save all the farm birds of the world. And that is exactly what I did, I wrote notes, and drew little pictures to go along, and left them on his desk before he'd come to class. That is just another example of a crazy daydreaming imagination going possibly a little too far.
2 Corinthians 10:5 says we are to "take every thought captive to obedience of Christ," which is what I started to think about when I finally pulled my head out of the clouds during my calculus class tonight. What are my thoughts usually focused on? Is always a good question to ask. It's a good thing for all of us to ask ourselves, not only those who are known to daydream and have crazy imaginations like myself, but for everyone. None of our friends or family members know our thoughts unless we tell them. So it is easy to fool ourselves into going through the motions, putting on a face to make everyone think what we want them to think, while in our mind something totally different is going on. When we do that though, it is hypocricy which is not at all pleasing to the Lord. God knows all things, He knows all our thoughts, all our motives, He knows the depths of our hearts when even we don't.
With that said, I think the answer on what constantly fix my mind on is scripture and Christ. When my imagination is running wild, and my head is in the clouds getting carried away to dreamland more than it should, the best thing for me to think on is scripture. And to ask for God's grace in fixing my mind on His Word and His son.
Colossians 3:16, "Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you...."
Psalm 119:105, "Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path"
Philippians 4:8, "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, what is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."
That is what I should think on. Especially when I am tempted to do otherwise, or when my mind is wandering down a crazy path where I can get carried away. Which often happens, and I praise God for the blessing of having an imagination because it makes everything much more fun for me. I do, however have to examine and be watchful of how far my daydreaming goes and be sure I'm purposing to fill my mind with the Word. Which I praise God for, He is so gracious to give us His Word. His innerant, infallable, living and active Word!
I just love Hebrews 4:12 "For the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart." Praise God that He's given us His living and active Word! What a display of His grace and love that He has given it to us, and praise Him that "....His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through truth and knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence."
What a gracious God! Praise Him!
Blessings dear blogger friends from a girl with a goofy imagination, wanting to continue to grow in Christlikeness, in love and knowledge of the Lord.
For the glory of Christ,
Willa
