Senses That Make Sense
Dear Family,
Much of the
information we gather during the
course of any given day comes to
us via our five senses.
And the
vast majority of their purpose
and usefulness is to produce and
enjoy pleasure!
With the
eyes, color, so much color! The
information is not delivered in
black and white as it could be.
It is in color!
With smell,
fragrance so appealing and so
specific it can lift you
mentally to places nothing else
can.
With taste,
flavors abound! Vanilla,
chocolate, strawberry, roast
chicken, a grilled hot dog,
delicious!
With touch,
feeling the wind against your
skin, the soft clean sheets as
you wrap yourself in bed.
With
hearing, a babbling brook, a
symphony, leaves rustling in the
wind on a fall day.
I am told
when one loses one or more of
the five senses the others left
become heightened to almost a
super human level to compensate
for those missing.
Perhaps you
can relate to this but in my
life during times of mental and
emotional pain I seem to lose
the full effect of all the five
senses. Color is not so bright,
fragrances are not so pleasant,
taste becomes bland, and my
personal favorite, touch,
becomes almost nonexistent.
However, the
information that comes from
one’s heart and delivered to
one’s soul is always accurate
and perhaps even more crucial
and heightened during times of
extreme pain and stress. Even
though the five senses do have a
powerful effect on the mind, the
heart perfected by the presence
of the Holy Spirit in each human
being has much greater and
far-reaching implications than
do the five senses on our
respective brains.
If you’ve been with me for any
length of time, you now are well
aware of my
modus
operandi. Yes, my “M.O.”, my
“go-to and default position" is
always the Gospel. I’m so proud
of it! It is the Power of God to
the saving of the soul!
Paul said,"
God has made unto us wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification
and redemption."
Where do
those four incredible qualities
reside for every human
everywhere? In their heart,
that’s where.
Since the
Cross of Christ, His
Resurrection, Ascension, and the
coming of the Holy Spirit, the
heart has become a vast resource
for truth about these four
realities—wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption.
This is critical: these four
characteristics of God are no
longer what we are called to
pursue, obtain, or aspire to as
Christianity so diabolically
teaches. All human beings
already have them all! They are
as close as your pulse and as
vital as the blood coursing
through your veins.
The process
of information received to the
brain comes one of two ways.
Either it comes from the
exterior stimulating the five
senses OR internally from the
heart imputed with God’s very
own characteristics.
The brain is
an amazing machine. In actuality
the eyes do not see, the brain
does. Taste buds do not taste,
the brain does. Skin doesn’t
feel the brain does. The ears do
not hear the brain does!
The gates of
the five senses are just that,
gates. The Gospel, the
Scriptures which foretold the
Gospel, is to the brain what the
five senses are. The five senses
gather information from the
external world. The Gospel
gathers information from the
internal world, your heart where
the Kingdom of God exists, and
conveys it to the brain.
When guilt
and judgment are predominant in
the brain, you cannot just
simply enjoy color. You must
JUDGE the color. As with all the
five senses, when we are under
the cloud of legalism and
religion we cannot simply enjoy
color, taste, feel, aroma, or
sound. The pleasure which our
senses are designed to deliver
is truncated by
Christian-thought. We first must
judge it! Or we feel guilty by
being associated with it. Taken
to their extreme, we see the
serious sects of all religions
stripping their worlds to the
best of their ability of as much
color, sound, and visuals as
possible. Yuck!
On the other
hand, the Gospel of Grace and
the Gospel of Peace opens a
flood gate of reality to flow
from your heart, from
every person's heart, directly
to the brain or the soul. And
what is the Gospel’s #1
assignment? To remove guilt and
judgment from the brain is the
Gospel’s priority! And with
laser like precision God’s
revealed grace removes guilt and
His peace removes judgment.
The brain
ruled by guilt and judgment sees
a colorless world. The brain can
no longer "see" color. Color has
been judged. It cannot produce
feelings that can border on the
euphoric. The color carries with
it guilt. It is like a seriously
faded shirt or blouse. Life
becomes gray, taking on the pale
of death. And although the faded
garment might feel comfortable
because of your familiarity with
it, it really doesn't look good
on you anymore. And you know it.
The brain
NEEDS stimulation! The brain
NEEDS pleasure! But mostly the
brain NEEDS salvation!
Without the
full stimuli of the five senses,
due to the filters of guilt and
judgment, the brain experiences
many kinds of mental and
emotional maladies. Addictions
of all kinds run rampant in this
colorless and guilt ridden
world.
However, by
continually cleansing the brain
with the Gospel through
meditation, discussion, reading,
listening—by consistently saving
the soul—the brain can now see,
hear, smell, taste and touch to
its highest designed level
rewarding the human it works
for!
Void of
guilt and judgment our senses
finally can make sense!
At one time
in my life I was so distraught
by the guilt and judgment of a
religiously tormented mind that
I remember not even being able
feel the comfort of fresh sheets
when getting into my bed. I
never want to be that
emotionally dead again. And with
the Gospel of God’s Peace and
Grace, I don’t have to be and
neither do YOU!
Much Love,
Michael
