When people lack interest in history through the rearview mirror, they will not likely have an interest in the future through the windshield. With their hands on the steering wheel and their eyes on the road, they are comfortable in the way they are going. Don't bother them, don't bug them, just leave them alone.
Dreams and visions have they none.
They live in a present state of mind. They are as they are and they do not think about the way they got to be the way they are. Their history does not bother them, and their future is of no concern. They live today, they live today, and they live today. Today is no more than a continuation of yesterday, and tomorrow will be no more than a continuation of today.
Dreams and visions have they none.
Neither do they talk about matters of the heart, preferring instead those things from a storehouse of collections in their minds---things external instead of things internal---even though they do not know the difference. They are as they are without interference, and their desire is to remain as they are without interference. Internally, they prefer to protect self: by keeping others at arm's length, they block others from knowing their hearts, such as how they think or feel, while, at the same time, not desiring to know how others think or feel. They treat themselves as if they prefer to remain anonymous, leaving others to know no more about them today than they knew about them yesterday, while not desiring to know the hearts of others. They remain as strangers to others just as others remain as strangers to them.
Dreams and visions have they none.
Blinded by pride, they see an image of themselves in their own minds and built by their own imaginations: a self of their own making, scrubbed and polished, a self they see of themselves, a self they secretly desire will be seen by others, and a self they secretly desire that others should be like them. Thus they become a graven image of self, filled and fueled by their own ego, convinced and content that they are the epitome of being human. With their heads mounted on their shoulders and standing above others, they are, of course, correct in everything they do, for they govern themselves with their own laws, rules, and regulations, fully believing that their self-authority is absolute and beyond the boundaries of challenge; for in their own minds they view their self-image as a god, for they have accepted and endorsed a plan of salvation that is not from God, but from a god of their own imaginations, or from the imaginations of others, and heaven is no more than a place in the world of their own minds, which, too, is an imaginary fantasy.
Dreams and visions have they none.
Would it be fair to say that people have the power to dress like stained-glass windows?---not wanting others to know us as we really are, but preferring that they see us as we appear to be? If this is true, then our wardrobes are cloaks of many colors, or uniforms of the day.
As a Christian, if my dreams and visions are not the same as Christ's dreams and visions, then my dreams and visions will be all about me and not about Christ; and if about me, then I will toot my own horn and blow my own trumpet. But if I am in Christ and Him in me, then my interest will be in those things that are of interest to Christ, which are above my own interests.
"What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." (1st Corinthians 6: 19-20)
Dreams and visions have they none.
They live in a present state of mind. They are as they are and they do not think about the way they got to be the way they are. Their history does not bother them, and their future is of no concern. They live today, they live today, and they live today. Today is no more than a continuation of yesterday, and tomorrow will be no more than a continuation of today.
Dreams and visions have they none.
Neither do they talk about matters of the heart, preferring instead those things from a storehouse of collections in their minds---things external instead of things internal---even though they do not know the difference. They are as they are without interference, and their desire is to remain as they are without interference. Internally, they prefer to protect self: by keeping others at arm's length, they block others from knowing their hearts, such as how they think or feel, while, at the same time, not desiring to know how others think or feel. They treat themselves as if they prefer to remain anonymous, leaving others to know no more about them today than they knew about them yesterday, while not desiring to know the hearts of others. They remain as strangers to others just as others remain as strangers to them.
Dreams and visions have they none.
Blinded by pride, they see an image of themselves in their own minds and built by their own imaginations: a self of their own making, scrubbed and polished, a self they see of themselves, a self they secretly desire will be seen by others, and a self they secretly desire that others should be like them. Thus they become a graven image of self, filled and fueled by their own ego, convinced and content that they are the epitome of being human. With their heads mounted on their shoulders and standing above others, they are, of course, correct in everything they do, for they govern themselves with their own laws, rules, and regulations, fully believing that their self-authority is absolute and beyond the boundaries of challenge; for in their own minds they view their self-image as a god, for they have accepted and endorsed a plan of salvation that is not from God, but from a god of their own imaginations, or from the imaginations of others, and heaven is no more than a place in the world of their own minds, which, too, is an imaginary fantasy.
Dreams and visions have they none.
Would it be fair to say that people have the power to dress like stained-glass windows?---not wanting others to know us as we really are, but preferring that they see us as we appear to be? If this is true, then our wardrobes are cloaks of many colors, or uniforms of the day.
As a Christian, if my dreams and visions are not the same as Christ's dreams and visions, then my dreams and visions will be all about me and not about Christ; and if about me, then I will toot my own horn and blow my own trumpet. But if I am in Christ and Him in me, then my interest will be in those things that are of interest to Christ, which are above my own interests.
"What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." (1st Corinthians 6: 19-20)
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