Consider for a moment what happens to a drop of water when it falls into the ocean. It doesn't remain a drop of water. It literally becomes the ocean itself. In becoming the ocean it is immediately granted access to all the resources that come along with being the ocean. As the ocean its impact on the world is far greater, than as a mere drop of water.
Now imagine that the way in which you have been thinking has been closer to that of a drop of water than it has been the ocean. This simply means, you're not thinking big enough. We serve an all-powerful God and we profess to believe that our God is capable of making the impossible possible, yet we limit what God can demonstrate in our lives because our thinking is more like a drop of water than it is the ocean. Envision that your heart is the ocean in your life and your mind is the drop of water and when you submit to what is in your heart you become the ocean. Why would I ask you to imagine that your heart is the ocean? It's because your heart really is the ocean of your life. Your heart is the center of your life's intelligence. Every heartbeat is in perfect harmony with the universe and when you're thinking is in harmony with your heart, you naturally do some big thinking.
How much more do you think you could achieve for yourself if metaphorically speaking, you learned how to think like the ocean? Consider for a moment that the drama that sometimes unfolds in your life is merely the result of you thinking too small. What does thinking too small look like?
First, consider what thinking actually is in a nutshell. Thinking is having a conversation with yourself that involves you posing questions to yourself and then you seeking to answer those questions. The questions you ask or either resourceful or non-resourceful questions. Thinking small is you having a conversation with yourself whereby you're asking yourself the same non-resourceful questions over and over again. A non-resourceful question is a question whose answers can only give to you what you already have. So you ask questions like, "What's wrong with me?" - "Why does this keep happening to me? - Or "When will it be my turn?" All three questions are examples of non-resourceful questions. They can only lead you back to where you already are. Everywhere in your life where you find yourself going in unwanted circles it's because you keep asking yourself non-resourceful questions. In the book of St. Matthew, chapter seven, verse seven, in the King James Version of the Bible it says, "Ask and it shall be given unto you. Seek and yeah shall find. Knock and the door shall be open unto you". This passage is revealing to us the awesome power of questions. If you want to open doors you better learn how to ask questions that bring you into the ocean, rather than return you to the small pond.
The results you've been producing in your life speak volumes about the quality of questions you've been asking yourself. When you start to think like the ocean you start posing questions to yourself that gives you access to an ocean of possibilities. For example, instead of asking, "What's wrong with me?" How about asking the reverse question, "What's right with me?" If you asked yourself, "What's right with me?" you would then find yourself looking for what's right and everything you'd find would be a resource to you. It will be something that supports you being all you can be.
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