You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."

Lord, help me expand into the person you made me to be

Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"  They said in reply, "John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets."  And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?"  Peter said to him in reply, "You are the Christ."  Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days.  He spoke this openly.  Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.  At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan.  You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."

You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."

Lord,
It is so hard to not think as a human being does.  That is who and what I am.  That is how you made me, a human being.


I made you for more.  Your capacity is infinite.  I'm talking about your soul going into eternity.  Your human body is finite but there is much capacity for growth and understanding.  


It's like a giant almost empty warehouse where your understanding and experience only resides in a small corner.  You have all your 'stuff', stuffed in there, inside your self imposed boundaries.  You have your small amount of knowledge stuffed so tightly together that there is no room to walk around.  There is little room to breath.  You have been afraid to 'spread out', not wanting to take up too much 'space' with a fear of imposing on someone else's 'space', not feeling worthy of even the space you currently occupy.  When someone comes into your space, you feel the need to rearrange to accommodate them. While they are there, you are busy, working rearranging, trying to make yourself' more acceptable and appealing.  You do not give them your full attention because you are focused on your own inadequacies.  You do not completely give yourself to others because you do not believe they would really like who that is and then you would be even more wounded.  You are not free to be and it is your own restraints that are keeping you there.