Tuesday, October 14, 2014

God's Psychology

I had a Psychology exam today.
I was confused by two questions, but took the fifty-fifty chance after process of elimination and answered what I thought was correct. I kept the two questions in mind and right when I got out of class, I went to my notes and checked my answers. 
Happy with myself, I was walking to the library and a thought hit me, like always: after we got through a spiritual test, or just our day, do we go to the Bible and see if we got things right? 
We got through our days just living. We don't always check the outcome of our actions before or even after we do them. If we checked with God and the Bible everyday to see what we need to work on then we would learn better for the next time! Everyday we can inch closer and closer to 100%.
We can't throw away our "notes" just because the situation, test, etc. is done. We have to re-look at them daily because those notes will be the foundation for the next set of notes. And then those notes will be the foundation for the next ones. So on and so forth! 
We can't just keep them in our working memory (short term memory, as it's commonly referred to). We have to rehearse, exercise and visualize them daily.
How do we visualize them? 
Surround yourself with people that can give you a solid, healthy visual of what this looks like! If you have a mentor, make sure that they do this. 
We want to be prepared for the pop quizzes and tests of our spiritual warfare!

Another Note:
There was an experiment done with pregnant mothers.
Scientists would have the pregnant mothers read The Cat in the Hat out loud everyday until the baby was born. Once they were born, they hooked two bottles to two TV's. One TV played a recording of a stranger read the book when the baby sucked on one bottle. The other TV played a recording of the mom reading the book when the baby sucked on the other bottle. The baby sucked on the second bottle more often, showing that it liked the sound of the mom's voice more. The sound of the mom's voice and the rhythm of the words from the book soothed the baby.
God's word and voice should soothe us. When we hear His voice on one side and another's voice on the other, we should always prefer God's voice more.

One of the girls....
Taylyr

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