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Acting “As If”…
Posted By Lundie
There’s a time for thinking, and there’s a time for acting. In my last post I talked about what to do after I sinned. This time I want to talk about what to do BEFORE I sin…
Ok, so that sounds a little bit funny. Of course I don’t WANT to sin, yet I find myself there time and again (and again). After the fact. Regretting my willful actions. So I want to throw another idea out there. Something I’ve been mulling over for the past few days.
I’m sure you have heard this phrase before: Acting “as if…”
(I apologize in advance if someone has copy-written or trademarked this simple little set of words. Credit where credit due, etc., etc.)
The idea is simple, but oh so critical. My friend, Elisa, wrote last week asking “Who Are You?”, and I am fairly certain my thoughts started there (it was really good stuff!)
Who do I really believe that I am? And can I start to act “as if” I am the person that the Bible says I am – that I really want to be? What’s stopping me from acting as if I am someone who doesn’t sin in that particularly cherished way? Sometimes I think I keep waiting around for the “magic moment” when all the things in the Bible that I read just transform me – like Cinderella with her Fairy Godmother. Whoosh! There’s the “righteous Lundie” all set to be perfect from here on out. But you know, that hasn’t happened yet, so….
…In the meantime, maybe it’s time for me to do a little bit of pretending. I think I am going to pretend I am a super patient mom, and a really thoughtful wife, and you know, maybe today I will act like someone who only eats when she’s hungry.
With all this going for us, my dear, dear friends, stand your ground. And don’t hold back. Throw yourselves into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort. 1 Corinthians 15:58
Apr 16th, 2007
Hi, I just came across your blog,(landed on this page), and this entry is a divine entry from God to me. Thank you, sister in Christ, for writing this. In the past I had heard that our thinking is like the engine pulling the train…they affected our emotions which in turn affected our actions. I heard a local pastors wife on television the other day saying we can let our deeds change our thoughts as well as our thoughts change our deeds. She said, I love that! Lord help our minds get renewed and help us act as if we know it’s the Truth. O unhappy and wretched man that I am, Who will deliver me from this body of death? O thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. God bless you!
Lundie - thanks, this is a real thought provoker. I was right there with you until you threw in that “don’t eat until hungry” part…ugh, I had to put down my donut! Of course being a patient mom is easy right now… my twins are still in bed.
Thanks for the conviction
Hi Lund,
Great thoughts and I loved the Cinderella analogy. Sometimes I wish I was instantly transformed. Don’t think that will happen until I walk the streets of gold. Love you, Lynn
I love your post.
Angel
Right on, Lundie! I was just having that same conversation with the women in my Bible Study this morning, over the issue of sin and wanting to be a new creation. When we become a new creation, we are no longer slave to the sin. We are set free in Christ. That doesn’t me we won’t sin…it means we don’t have to keep on sinning. (Romans 6:18).
I think such a key element to understanding all this is realizing it does start in our minds…and acting “as if” seems like a brilliant way to start living in the freedom Christ has paid for us!
Blessings, dear friend and sister in Christ,
Elisa
What a great thought Lundie - thanks! I need to do some of the “pretending” too. (I loved that post to by Elisa.)
…In the meantime, maybe it’s time for me to do a little bit of pretending. I think I am going to pretend I am a super patient mom, and a really thoughtful wife, and you know, maybe today I will act like someone who only eats when she’s hungry…
as I watched once on Martha stewart apprentice.. one of the girls said “fake it til you make it”.. and though Martha didn’t think it was right, I think we can’t make it til we do the actions, even if it is “faking it” at the moment…
great thought provoking post!
I get so fed up with my girlfriend as she’s not in faith, and nthen on money matter’s, she freezes up like there’s no way,
I keep telling her to not act that way, and that God want’s to bless her,
Im believing god for a good deal on a GMC yukon, but all she see’s is ohh its too much money ike shes brainwashed in poverty, and I tell her that all thing sare possible to him that believe’s,
please help,