Day 360- What is your mindset?
📖Daily Reading
Revelation 17
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📝 Reflection
Revelation 17:5-6
'A mysterious name was written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World”. I could see that she was drunk—drunk with the blood of God’s holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her in complete amazement.’
So we have one more vision of yet another seven headed beast that is scarlet colored, also with 10 horns and seven crowns being ridden by a woman who is dressed in purple, scarlet and jewels and is referred to as a prostitute. What are we to do with this imagery at a practical level today more that 2000 years later? There is an angel on the scene helping John understand this vision and is talking about Babylon and Kings and Rulers that have been are are still to come. Babylon vs. Jerusalem, good vs. evil. The epic saga played out on the worlds stage of power, lust, greed, and pride that people have been struggling with since the dawn of time.
The words prostitute and drunk have more meaning to them than just what we most commonly use them for. In their broader context they have deeper meaning. Prostitute can also mean to compromise your morals or misuse your gifts, talents or resources in exchange for compensation of some kind. Drunk can also mean that you are overwhelmed with emotion or in a mindless, aimless or uncohesive state of mind. So both words can represent a mind set that we can all fall into if we aren’t careful.
People who drink too much and get sober but don’t do ‘the work’ are often referred to as dry drunks. Why? Because drunkenness is a state of mind that is not only caused just by consuming alcohol. I know, because it is part of my own journey. I had a habit of drinking a couple of glasses of wine on a daily basis, never getting beyond a slightly ‘buzzed’ state. Interestingly, I don’t actually like getting drunk from alcohol, I have only actually been what is considered drunk from alcohol just a handful of times, most of those from my college days.
I did suffer from what I would refer to as a ‘drunk’ mindset. I was just floating through life mostly reacting to life. I wan’t living as intentionally as I could have for the long term I was all about just enjoying the moments and days as they happened. I was a planner in a sense, but often didn’t worry to much about the consequences of my lack of consistency with the habits I did want to have and the great consistency that I did seem to have with the ones I didn’t want to have? Sound familiar? Paul talked about it in Romans, “I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.”
As a recovering people pleaser & co-dependent, which is not only a drunk state of mind but also one where I could find myself prostituting myself, my integrity and my value(s) for a counterfeit version of love. Being liked by others, letting my ego be gratified by feeling needed, so helpful, so ‘self’less, a modern day ‘martyr’ (sounds a bit like Martha, hmmmm). When you slow down and look closely at the habit of people pleasing it is pretty darn selfish, deceitful and prideful. I know the truth hurts, it really stung when I saw it for what it was.
It takes courage to be honest, self aware, intentional, mindful, long term focused, choosing discomfort now, to be a cheerful helper, an authentic giver, to risk not being liked or understood. It takes a sober mind and an uncompromising commitment to your integrity. Paul talked a lot about this too. Always do your best and keep your conscience clear. I am still a bit tipsy, but getting a more sober mindset everyday. Choosing to be alcohol free for me as a lifestyle was only the first step in that process. It is a long journey to becoming sober minded and hopefully even wise one day. It is worth the effort, choosing the discomfort today for long term peace and health is everything! This is a life long adventure for me now not just a life style- it is what I call the ‘own it! for good’ mindset and heartset.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
Are there ways that you are living with a drunk mindset? Are you prostituting yourself in anyway?
📖Tomorrows Reading
Revelation 18
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