Re: More on merely reading the manual but not driving the car.

Great examples Tzu! That's exactly what I am talking about.

I like the example you gave of being blown by Gods will/wind and not ours. Or drifting on the water the same way like a boat with no one at the helm.

I think the Bible talks about being like a mirror too? Reflecting God's creation. Another one is being like a lake and reflecting God's reality without your interpretation of it changing it.

All of this basically says, get out of the drivers seat and let God drive.

Like you said, if you have truly given your heart over to God and have asked God to live there, then the heart can be trusted more than your mind.

The heart knows what the mind can't conceive.

Another short story about what I experienced going through that same divorce only days later on New Years Eve.

I was at a friends house and suddenly felt sick and uneasy. It was 11:45pm, right before midnight New Years Eve.

And it just got worse. Not to the point of throwing up, but half way to that point.

I sat there trying to figure out what was causing it, and suddenly I realized it wasn't about me. It was about my wife.

And I told my friend this. I thought something was wrong with my wife. I called her and no answer.

Then about 12:30am I got a call from her and she had been in a wreck and rolled down a bank and totaled the car I had bought her.

We found out the next day she had broken her neck and was taken to the biggest hospital in Seattle.

There is more to the story, but it doesn't really matter since it's about me. But the point is like you said.

If we have truly transformed and have given our hearts to God, then we can trust our heart and where God/the heart leads us. We asked God to live in our heart and we can't trust it? Even the mind knows that's wrong.

When we get that feeling that something isn't right, it first comes from the mind. That red flag pops up. But then the heart confirms it. You know in your heart that it's not right. You may not know why, but you know it's wrong. I really believe that is where the spirit of God resides. God knocks on the door to your heart and asks if he can come in and dine with you.



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