Keeping My Thoughts in Christ
Today, while working on a project that required input from an outside institution that I’d been playing phone tag with for months, I had a realization that changed my perspective on "hold time”.
When I first initiated the call, I knew the wait would be long. After a few rounds of the automated hold message, I felt impatience rising in my soul. I knew it was my "soul" because I started to grumble and complain to myself about how inefficient the system was. I wondered why a company of this size couldn't afford better technology to serve its clients.
As I listened to my own frustration, I felt the Holy Spirit remind me of Isaiah 26:3: “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”
I realized I had a choice—to obey and believe the truth, or stay trapped in carnal, unproductive thinking.
I began with thanksgiving, telling the Lord I was grateful that He was with me and that I trusted Him. However, my mind kept drifting back to grumbling because the hold message repeatedly promised a representative would be with me "shortly". Recognizing that I was in a double-minded state—and knowing that, I would not receive from God (James 1:7-8)—I remembered 1 Corinthians 14:14: “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.”
As I began to pray in tongues, my mind became "unfruitful" to the frustration; the grumbling stopped. My focus shifted from myself to the Lord. The waiting time was no longer screaming at me, and my soul became quiet and peaceful.
Soon after, a representative named Edna answered. She was able to resolve the paperwork issue that had been delayed for months. What began as a one-hour and twenty-minute "hold" test became a testimony of God’s goodness, leading me toward repentance and renewed thinking.
When I first initiated the call, I knew the wait would be long. After a few rounds of the automated hold message, I felt impatience rising in my soul. I knew it was my "soul" because I started to grumble and complain to myself about how inefficient the system was. I wondered why a company of this size couldn't afford better technology to serve its clients.
As I listened to my own frustration, I felt the Holy Spirit remind me of Isaiah 26:3: “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”
I realized I had a choice—to obey and believe the truth, or stay trapped in carnal, unproductive thinking.
I began with thanksgiving, telling the Lord I was grateful that He was with me and that I trusted Him. However, my mind kept drifting back to grumbling because the hold message repeatedly promised a representative would be with me "shortly". Recognizing that I was in a double-minded state—and knowing that, I would not receive from God (James 1:7-8)—I remembered 1 Corinthians 14:14: “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.”
As I began to pray in tongues, my mind became "unfruitful" to the frustration; the grumbling stopped. My focus shifted from myself to the Lord. The waiting time was no longer screaming at me, and my soul became quiet and peaceful.
Soon after, a representative named Edna answered. She was able to resolve the paperwork issue that had been delayed for months. What began as a one-hour and twenty-minute "hold" test became a testimony of God’s goodness, leading me toward repentance and renewed thinking.
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