THE ART OF WASHING OF THE BRAIN

 Howdy Do O Ye Created Beings.

How's your noodle...your noggin...your thinker...your BRAIN doing?  In this hustle and bustle world in the land of nitty-gritty...we get things dirty and worn at with the daily wear and tear..  As we travel in this world in our vehicles...things begin to wear and tear...and we have to have what is known as a TUNE UP.  Change the oil, put air in the tires, check the belts and the fluids.  If we don't...it will be a rough ride.  At the very least...either run the car through the car wash or get out the hose and bucket and vacuum cleaner at the house and get to WASHING

NOTE: The link to the BRAIN...is the CREATOR of the BRAIN..

You keep the important things in your life CLEAN and RUNNING at OPTIMUM LEVELS.  For our bodies...THE BRAIN is control central for our bodies.  As the old song goes...the foot bone connected to the ankle bone...the ankle bone connected to the leg bone...and on and on.  In the physical...the BRAIN...connects to the NERVES... linking to EVERY PART OF OUR BODY...sending and receiving signals for everything to WORK...but in reality...for everything to LIVE and FUNCTION as it was designed to do.  In the words of the group THE LOST DOGS...WE WERE BUILT FOR GLORY:

We were built for glory
We were made to last
God formed our feet to walk golden streets
when this hard life is past
It's time to make your peace with God
cause this life's over fast
and we were built for glory
We were made to last

The Psalmist in his Psalm about God's Perfect Knowledge of Man (Psalm 139:13-16)...He plucks his psaltery (stringed instrument as it was DAVID UNPLUGGED)and sings:

For You FORMED my INWARD PARTS; You covered/wove me in my mother's womb.  I will praise You, for I am FEARFULLY and WONDERFULLY MADE.  Marvelous are Your WORKS and that my SOUL (mind, will, emotions) knows very well.  My FRAME (bones, muscles, brain, nerves, spine, etc.) was not hidden from You, when I was MADE in secret, and SKILLFULLY WROUGHT in the lowest parts of the earth.  Your eyes saw my SUBSTANCE being YET UNFORMED.  And in Your book they all were written.  The days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them." (Psalm 139:13-16)

BODY:  sōma (so'-mah)= the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively: - bodily, body, slave.

When in the physical...our bodies (soma) gets "out of whack"...aka SUBLUXATION...out bodies can be REALIGNED...so the pathway to our body parts can function as they were created to function. 

On the spiritual level we have the spirit (direct link to God) and the soul (our minds (how we think), our free will... aka volition (ability to choose) and emotions (our feelings...the barometer of what we think and choose). 

In the Speech-Language world (and other sciences)...the mind is formed by either NATURE or NUTURE.  One thought (nature) is that we are born with everything inside our brains and it develops as we grow.  The other thought (nurture) is that we were born with a clean slate in our minds...and our experiences (good, bad, ugly) shapes the way we respond and react in world and forms who we are know to be.  NOTE: I believe both are true. The mind left to it's own...depending on the environmental input...will determine how we speak and act.

Someone once told Barry McGuire...that when he became a Christian...that he was BRAINWASHED.  Barry's response was that yes he was...because his BRAIN needed WASHING. 

The way we deal with the MIND...is to WASH it by the WASHING OF THE RENEWING OF THE MIND.

In a previous Rambling we talked about the presentation (sacrifice)  of our BODIES (soma)...that is linked to WORSHIP...that is holy, acceptable, and reasonable service of worship. (Romans 12:1)


We are called to NOT BE CONFORMED to the world... but to BE TRANSFORMED.  This transformation takes place NOT in the body (soma)...but in the place of our SOUL called the MIND. 

"And do not be CONFORMED (fit into a mold) to this world...but be TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING OF YOUR MIND...that you may PROVE what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." (Romans 12:2)

In the context of putting off the old man/wo-man...and putting on the new man/wo-man...we are called to "BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND."  (Ephesians 4:23)  We see how the spiritual and natural is effected by RENEWING OF THE MIND...BEING BRAINWASHED...by having your BRAIN WASHED like the husband is to wash his wife as a picture of Christ to the church..."Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might SANCTIFY (set apart for a purpose) and CLEANSE (wash brain/mind) with the WASHING OF THE WATER...BY THE WORD." (Ephesians 5:25-26)

We are seeing how this RENEWAL PROCESS...is affecting our BODIES (soma) as we present our bodies to Him as a living sacrifice...our SOULS (mind, free will/volition/choices)...and of course our SPIRITS (little s where the Big S/Holy Spirit dwells).  As with everything in the kingdom of God...it starts from the inside out by GRACE...through FAITH...and not of ourselves so we can't have BRAGGING RIGHTS about how we change.
GRACE: charis (khar'-ece)=graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude): - acceptable, benefit, favour, gift, grace (-ious), joy liberality, pleasure, thank (-s, -worthy).

"Therefore we do not lose heart.  Even though our OUTWARD MAN is perishing/decaying YET...the INWARD MAN (spirit) is BEING (a process) DAY BY DAY." (II Corinthians 4:16)

FINAL THOUGHTS...FINALLY

As believers...we BELIEVE (trust in, cling to and rely on) the work of God in our lives.  What can we do IF he has done it all.  Well we can:

• Believe
• Read the Word
• Hear the Word
• Confess the Word
• Declare the Word
• Call things that are NOT as thought they WERE
• Pray, Supplicate and Thank Him before you see anything take place
• Walk by faith and not by sight
• Put corresponding actions to our faith
• And the bottom line of first things first...Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength...and love your neighbor as yourself.

Love and Renewed Kisses
Rodney "Back On Track" Boyd