January 06, 2011
Infected
Norton just alerted me to an infection in my cousins Paula’s email address book. I’m praising the Lord that my antivirus system worked like it was supposed to. My initial response it to alert other family members and caution them about opening any emails that come from her computer. It’s interesting that I respond quickly to a computer attack, but yet when the Spirit sends me an alert about Satan, I’m often slow to respond or I don’t comprehend the seriousness of the infection.
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Gail;
-----I would rather Satan not know the psychology of man, but I am thankful the Lord does. Our minds are cold-blooded in the events and affairs of our lives, like the frog in the pot, for a good purpose. The matters in which we must be involved are highly systemic both amongst each other and from yesterday through today into tomorrow. And so are our thoughts and feelings. Unfortunately, Satan knows this as well as the Lord, and we are better off when we recognize it, too.
-----All of the details of life’s hubbub, including that in our hearts and minds, are a plenteous supply for overloading our awareness. If God had not created us with two systems of resistance to mental change, we would all become hopelessly lost in irrelevant spontaneity. The brain actually has a lower-level, physical center providing automatic resistance to change, which can be overridden by much consciously willing effort. Then we ourselves have an autonomous will for directing the attention of our awareness. The acuteness of our memory, the magnitude of our ambitions, and the strength of our drives provide the ability to stay a course through all the plots and plans we must autonomously make and attend for gaining our food and shelter, enjoying our lives, being useful to others, and serving the Lord.
-----The combination of these two systems of resistance that make our goals achievable works also to effect in us biases, prejudices, and the outright ignoring of information. Life comes at us fast and complicated. If it were not for these biases, prejudices, and ignorance, we would be lost in hopeless confusion amongst life’s minutia. Yet we must also carefully attend this filter, because what is good and important gets hung up in it just as much as what is bad and destructive, simply for the fact that both can be new and unfamiliar.
-----So we do our best to attend to the things we know are important to our security, temporal and eternal, and to not miss those we have not yet discovered when they come knocking. We who do it well lead orderly and prosperous lives; we who do it poorly live in disarrayed poverty. Since I tend a bit too much to the latter, I am perpetually thankful that, “A man’s mind plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.” (Prov 16:9)
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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