So Stuck: If My mind Won’t Move Nor Can I
Ephesians 4:22-24 Amplified Bible (AMP)
22Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; 23And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], 24And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God's image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness.
Have you ever walked into a room and forgot what you came into that room for, and you found yourself stuck, right there. Everything within you may have been willing yourself to remember and for the life of you, you just couldn’t. Sometimes it takes someone reminding us, sometimes it takes us seeing something to jar us, and other times it may take us beginning again, by walking out of the room and starting the process again. The other day my professor sent us a post that reminded us that although she is the instructor she experiences many of the same challenges we do, the posted simply articulated that her mind had been foggy and in a haze and that she had been stuck for the first portion of the week. When our mind is stuck, often we are as well. We cannot move to accomplish what we have set out to do. We get in a rut or just stuck unable to move forward and progress because our mind is holding us hostage to its inability to remember, its ability to remember the wrong things and even being in a state of overload.
There are many of us fast approaching a season of movement, God is wanting us to move, He is wanting to change our situation, it is expanding our territory, elevation, blessing our relationships, ministries, careers, and families, but we are stuck. We are stuck in a mindset or in a mode because we have not renewed our mind. Our mind is a vital part of our ability to move. I remember having a mild stroke and being in a state where my right side had become weakened to the point that I had to learn how to utilize and strengthen it again. It was my mind willing myself to do the physical therapy, accomplish the work necessary to walk without assistance and lift, grasp and even smile. Forward movement requires us to stop with the “I cants” and remember Philippians 4:13 that reminds us we “can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.” Many of us find ourselves stuck, because our mind is determined to keep us angry, in a place of unforgiveness, feeling some kind of way about people and even remaining in a system of misbelief that has been harmful to us and others. We have not taken the necessary steps to renew our thinking and replace all that is negative with the Word of the Lord which is truth and life. Instead we remain steadfast, unmovable but not abounding or progressing in anything but anger, self-pity, wrong thinking and wrong acting.
God’s desire is to see us go forth, move forward, come into His presence live and not die, but for many of us we are doing the opposite because we have not gotten before God asked Him to cleanse our mind, remind us, of who He made us and to correct any lie, even the ones we have chosen to tell ourselves and heal us in order for us to progress, overcome, prosper and live in abundance. It should be our desire to rid ourselves of things that are counterproductive, hurtful, and untrue. The Bible reminds us in Philippians 4:8, “For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them].” By allowing God into our thought process it is like that thing that jars us and causes us to finally remember what we came to do, and moves us to begin. Applying the Word of God to our thinking and putting away anything that can corrupt and disrupt the flow of God in our lives, anything that will cause us to not just renew, revitalize and cleanse our mind, but it will cause us to as the scripture states, “spring from a place of delusion” that hinders not only our mind, but our spirit.
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