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Steve Herrmann's avatar

The sanctified mind is not a triumph of intelligence but a wound slowly healed by grace. It is shaped in the shadows… where silence is sharper than speech, and the heart is taught, not by answers, but by waiting. It does not dazzle. It sees. And what it sees, it often cannot say.

In an age drunk on noise and novelty, such a mind is a kind of exile. It walks apart, not out of pride, but because the world no longer speaks its language. It hears the whisper of the Spirit in places others find empty. It names things truly, even when truth costs. Especially then.

To think with Christ is not to escape the world, but to bear it differently. The sanctified mind does not flee suffering; it learns to discern within it. It weeps where others cheer. It stays awake while the world sleeps. And when it prays, it does not ask to be brilliant, only faithful. For the lamp is lit only in the dark… and the mind that shines with God’s light is the one that first consented to be broken.

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Pamela Balcom's avatar

Beautifully put! This teaching is missing from church today. I have to search out deeper meaning online and from my own Bible study. But God is in the details of life and a wise man will marvel at those details and discover God is close. Blessings!

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