Mandeponium

Counter counter culture

  • Home
  • What is mandeponium?
  • How to be happy

Jul 15 2015

It’s impossible to meditate when I’m living in sin.

If I’m living with unconfessed sin and I try to sit down, stop, and focus my thoughts on my breathing, inevitably my mind goes straight to the sin, to the blight on my soul. No matter how hard I try, my mind won’t be still. It’s agitated and worried about the sin. It’s worried about my relationship with God, about God’s pending wrath I’m flippantly ignoring. If I ignore those feelings, then I have to find something else to distract my mind from the sin. I can’t sit still without the weight crushing me. Imagine, sitting alone, with just my thoughts, and just my sin. I shudder. Basically hell. So to get away from myself (and away from God) I’ll usually go play video games, go for a walk, or heaven forbid, go sin some more. Anything but being forced to deal with it. But deal with it you should.

The answer is to go to God in prayer. Prayer is deeper than meditation. The very first thing that will come up in your mind is the unconfessed sin. And you will repent and be forgiven right then and there. You can’t move forward until you do.

You can try to ignore it, and try to pray about other things.”I’m OK God. Let’s not bring that up. Here’s what I really wanted to talk to you about…”

If you try to run you will invite into your life a blindness, a wasting oppression, a willful ignorance that will only further separate you from God. You’ll think you’re good with God, but you’ll be walking alone.

Turn and repent, and feel the true freedom, the overwhelming joy, the utter relief of releasing yourself to God’s will. And be able to experience a still, quiet mind once again.

Related

Written by Mark Boris · Categorized: Christianity, Meditation

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Sign up for updates from Mandeponium.

New posts only. No spam.

Recent Posts

  • Can individual employees at Goolag access my personal information?
  • Thank God for changing seasons
  • I predict Hillary Clinton will come to a bad end.
  • A Few Thoughts on Star Trek Beyond
  • What I’m expecting from a Donald Trump presidency.

RSS RSS Feed

  • Can individual employees at Goolag access my personal information?
  • Thank God for changing seasons
  • I predict Hillary Clinton will come to a bad end.
  • A Few Thoughts on Star Trek Beyond
  • What I’m expecting from a Donald Trump presidency.
  • What if I accidently sleep through the Second Coming of Christ?
  • All the reasons I hate 3d movies
  • On the topic of organ memory
  • Don’t let your girl drink too much
  • Why did I get into game in the first place?

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2023 · Altitude Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in