Last night I watched the movie, What the Bleep We Know. This movie really makes you think about what is reality and how we as humans interact with our environment. The movie strengthened my faith, because they showed the power of prayer and loving thoughts on the health of all the cells in the body. They explained that mental blocks, addictions and emotions affect every cell in our body transforming the way they receive input, thus blocking nutrients in the future and increasing aging, obesity and other health problems. The mind only deals with possibilities we understand, so a paradigm shift toward spiritual understanding is a gift of God and not normal to human beings.
It so interesting the complexity of our minds and the patterns in which we think. We can remember the past, but we feel helpless to change the past. We believe we can affect the future with our emotions, such as anger could change a situation. What is amazing is that God can change our past, at least our accountability for eternal penalty of a poor past. By remembering how God has dealt with our past, we start to feel free to make better decisions for the future. The apostle Paul encourages us to remember our past without ceasing. In Thessalonians 1:3, he says good things to remember are our works of faith that caused us to turn to God from idols. When we can see that trusting God and living like we believe in his eternal plan for our life, then we start to value the Holy and the things of this earth lose their value and anxiety to keep them. Amazingly, we gain the ability to leave addictions, habits, old thought life and sin behind, so we are able to press on in wonderful successful memories. He also encourages us to remember our labor of love, which reveals a new ability to serve a living God. We were able to get leading from the Holy Spirit and make decisions based on faith versus the feelings we experience in this short life. We now understand that with God, nothing is impossible and we are so thankful for his forgiveness of our past we have a new and wonderful love for our God and Father. Finally, Paul recommends we remember our patience with hope, so that we will continue to wait for his son from heaven. This task is more difficult than the others are, so we see many Christians losing the faith and living for today with all the pleasures and treasures of this life. But, Paul says that if we will remember the hope God planted in our hearts by the Holy Spirit and the promise of his word, then we will have a blessing of hope that will transform our thinking, thus moving us into a new realm of possibility and insight into the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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