Transformed Mind

It’s funny how when things are going well the devil is not far behind, waiting to use our successes for his twisted torment and distorted sense of reality.   Pride is too easily snuck through the cracks of happiness and is manipulated for his gain. Coasting through life I was newly engaged to a beautiful godly woman, the job I had wanted for the past three years had finally contacted me, and I was making more money; everything seemed to have fallen into place.  Slowly and steadily though, I started to implode into a self-centered, materialistic slave.  I turned my back on the church financially by withholding my tithe, talking myself instead to needing the next coolest gadget or fancy watch.  Money somehow became my master, determining who I was and what I wanted.  Happy you may say, but only on the surface.  Material things only last so long before they lose their captivation and glamour.  I soon found myself empty and sullen.  I felt distant from the church not

“My Thoughts are completely different than yours,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9 “I’ve got this.” A statement I often catch myself uttering both audibly and under my breath. And why not, I’ve made it this far on my own already.  I moved from MN to the big NYC when I was 19, served a year in Iraq, and have continued to thrive since, right?  Well, not exactly, I did not have a relationship with Jesus then, so when I got back from Iraq, these were my thoughts… “Contemplation, my only solace to the lonesome crippling world I live in.  I must now adapt to the things around me.  Everything has changed so drastically from the comfortable life I once knew, a simple life of waking, school, and friends.  No longer am I a spectator watching the worlds events unfold on the mindless screen we