Thought and Christ; all the best thoughts might be the seed of Christ.

In Matthew ch11 Christ tells us that he offers rest for the believer.  What we might glance over is a small statement in the middle of that, that upon taking up his yoke, we learn him.

This was fuel for the Gnostic heresy, that Christ is knowledge.  However, we might discover shades of Christ in our thoughts, and that even if we aren't already "born again" or "baptized".

Christ as a word, and knowledge of that word, salvation.  Others paint Christ as the ever-present creative brush or pen of God by which He created all.

By faith, we know that all the very best of thoughts in our minds might be seeds of Christ that can be later harvested.

Contemplation and learnings, dimensions between thought and prayer....

Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn’t know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly. -Oswald Chambers

Immediately, talking about the synthesis between faith and knowledge, we know the heart can be mislead, and the mind will "poke holes" in our faith, but there is "heart knowledge" and "head knowledge".  Oh how the metaphors are used so differently even among the 66 books of the God's Word.

But that synthesis between faith and knowledge leads us to a kind of mystical contemplation, something blurring the dimensions between thought and prayer.....

servant's heart: remarks given on veterans day

In washing the disciple's feet, Jesus became a servant, but a shepherd always tends to his flock.  Remember that Jesus was the good shepherd.

Consider also that we are called to deny the world for His sake.  Part of cleansing their feet may have been to purify their connection to the earth: their feet.

Consider also that anointing the Lord's feet, may have also been a way of petitioning for more of His divinity, instead of the earthbound.  Surely the sinless Christ did not need anointing, but yet it was done anyway with pricey perfumes.

Truly the connection to God and the connection to earth-the feet-were worth the trouble.

 

We are but powerless to be but ever mindful of our connection to both heaven, above, and earth, below.  Without a doubt, we belong to God, but we are commanded to love our neighbor too, which is a bond to the earth, the earthly life and the sons of Adam, the first man, who was constructed from the dust of the earth.

 

The ceremony of wiping over the Lord's feet with one's hair, too, is emblematic of having the Lord on one's mind.  Connecting the head to the Lord is but one ceremonial dedication of one's thoughts on the things divine.