When Rhinoceros Fly

I really do not want you to think about an orange rhinoceros flying with blue wings.
Come on!
Cut that out!
Really!
I don’t want you to think about it anymore. Orange! Orange! Orange!

Have you ever touched a rhino? It feels like a hard orange. A very hard orange. Are you thinking about an orange rhino? Stop! Where is your self discipline? You’ve probably never heard of an orange rhinoceros! And certainly not a flying orange rhino with blue wings! So why are you thinking about it?

The point to all this silliness is simple: the more we try to not do something, the more we focus on it and ensure we do what we are not supposed to do. Ugg! Extremely annoying isn’t it. I appreciate the way Paul shares this struggle in Romans 7: “I do the things I don’t want to do but the things I want to do those I don’t do”. Our human nature gets the best of us just when we are trying our hardest. Most people don't make the same mistake twice. They make it three or four times or more.

A pearl to string: That's why the gift of the Holy Spirit is so important. He enables and empowers us to move beyond our sin -- not by focusing on it and refusing it on our own power or determination, but by enriching us and "distracting" us with the important things of God.

“Live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature”. (Galatians 5:16)

Know you are loved,
Lyndi