OUR FILTER


 

OUR FILTER

 

It is interesting how everything we read, hear, see, or receive through our senses is all perceived and processed through OUR FILTER… the particular lens through which we perceive every event, situation, and new bit of life information bombarding us at any point in time.

 

Every new circumstance is a mystery… a riddle, per se… that we have somehow calculated a way to perceive that makes sense to us.

 

1Cor13:9,12NKJV

“For we know in part and we prophesy in part…

…for now we see in a mirror, DIMLY…”

DIMLY - ainigmati: Riddle, enigma, an obscure thing

 

 

Our unregenerate brain is not built to find truth.

It is wired to defend what we already believe.

 

Psychologists call it “confirmation bias”.

Once we start to believe something, our mind becomes its bodyguard

hunting for evidence that agrees with us and discards everything that does not.

 

We believe we are being logical, but logic came second.

The belief came first, then our mind consistently builds the most “logical” case to protect it.

We are not impartially analyzing the world… but instead collecting proof for a verdict we have already reached.

After all… our belief system cannot be faulty or wrong!

 

 

Pr23:7NKJV  “For as he THINKS in his heart, so is he.”

That word, “THINKS” is “shaar”, which Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance defines as: to estimate; A primary root; literally to split open, I.e, to act as a gatekeeper; (figuratively) to estimate or think: to calculate

 

Your inner man… where you understand, reason, and calculate… acts as a gatekeeper allowing or disallowing… FILTERING thoughts that form you into who you believe you are.

                You become what you've calculated.

 

YOUR FILTER is a VEIL over your eyes through which you PERCEIVE every bit of information coming to you.

 

“Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the VEIL is taken away.” (2Cor3:16NKJV)

 

Col3:3AMP “For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.”

 

1Cor2:16AMP “…we have the mind of Christ [to be guided by His thoughts and purposes].”

“take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2Cor10:5BSB)

SO… “LET THIS MIND be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,” (Phil2:5NKJV)

·         LET yourself see life as Christ sees it.

·         LET yourself think as Christ thinks.

·         LET yourself believe as Christ believes.

·         LET yourself see YOU as Christ sees you.

 

·         LET Christ be YOUR FILTER!


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