Human Personality

The unredeemed human personality is a fiber of tangled thoughts and disjointed behaviors joined within a chaotic will all held in place by sin.  It only seems random, this life we hold, because we have given it over to the monster of unsanctified ego.  In one moment we feel pure and unperturbed and the next a roaring fit of distortions and maladjustments.  We do what we do because we think we must or to appease a lust or stem an impending disaster.  The panic that swells within because we can't make things work is an indication that we are out of whack; not just now but all day long.  The new life we have in Christ is a complete identification with the Salvation of God.  At any point we turn from it, we lose our way.  The world is an endless wave of opinions and strategies and misperceptions.  Rather than seeing God in the simplest red light or lingering indigestion, we give up on Him quickly and find some other way of making sense of things.   If we could just bend a bit toward God when we read something or hear a report or face a change of pace, we would do wonders for ourselves.  The Lord is on a continual mission to bring us back to Him in trust and affection and we fight and squirm in that work like little children chaffing at a seat belt.  At each turn look to Christ.  Look to Him determinedly, believing He will meet your there too.  The muddy path is just as golden as the crystalline one if you have Christ straight ahead of you.  The moment you push Him to the back of you, even the most warm and lovely of days can melt into a storm of wild winds and dismal dark clouds.  Take the time as soon as you think of it to turn to Christ hopefully, expectantly.  Read the Scriptures not to get something out of them as so many do but to be with Christ like two lovers sitting silently upon a couch.  His very presence transforms you, remakes you, beautifies you, comforts you, straightens you, inspires you, redefines you.  Nothing is more sure than this.  Christ is with you and He loves you.  Settle in beside Him and wait a moment for Jesus to quiet the storm. 

Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.  Matthew 8:26 NIV