A DELICATE SPIRITUAL/MENTAL BALANCE: The AA Example

I am a Realist. Therefore, I tend to be rational, logical, and realistic about upcoming situations - based on known facts. However, at the same time, I also know that thoughts are what fuel words, and words cause actions.

Still, there is more to this. My thoughts and subconscious thoughts, just like yours, cause whatever happens in the future to take shape. Do you realize where this is going yet?

Often we confuse cause and effect, or even group 2 things together that are unrelated in anyway except for statistics. The incidences of Rape and Ice Cream Consumption move in unison. Neither has anything to do with the other; both simply occur more readily in warm weather. At other times direct relationships exist.

It's proven Science that if you focus on something in particular, and live it, your mind will naturally unite the thoughts and corresponding supplementary things you need for it to happen. We are what we think and say. Unfortunately, this re-enforced "faith" works in both good and bad ways.

Why does Alcoholics Anonymous fail so miserably in the long-run? Because members must identify themselves as alcoholics daily, state they are powerless over alcohol, and degrade themselves before they speak; therefore, they remain in that drunk-thinking mindset, and weak, instead of obeying Scripture and simply confessing their wrongdoing and repenting of it and moving-on with their lives. 

AA members keep themselves mental alcoholics, just waiting to explode like a time bomb - and they almost always do. Get it? They give the alcohol the same mental power over their minds while fairly sober that they gave it over their physical bodies when they were drinking heavily. (Even if they stay-off of alcohol, they do it in the wrong manner; it is a fleshly as opposed to a spiritual method.)

A balance is needed. We should be realists and rational, but also speak and think positive yet realistic future things for our lives, and those of others. 

We are to figure out the will of God in small and large things, and think on it! (I am not talking about this false Joel Osteen/Ken Copeland/Mike Murdock type of stuff, but genuine faith-based thinking in the will of God - not your own "hopeful will" that you try and make God's will !!!!!!)  GO FOR IT!