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How important do you believe a thought can be? How much weight do you believe it should be given? I ask this question of myself as much as I do of you. I like to present a question to myself and also to God in the process of trying to come to an honest answer within myself. It would be interesting to know, from the start of thought until the death of thought within this body, how many thoughts actually occur, wouldn’t it? They are almost like cars on a road. Some you are simply passing by, others are going along with you, maybe eventually turning off the road or path after traveling along with you for some time. The struggle is deciding which thoughts to stay in stride with and which ones to let move on by.
Jesus talked about the importance of thoughts. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus teaches that even if someone commits a sin in their thoughts, it is just as serious as committing the act itself. He emphasizes the importance of having pure and righteous thoughts. I think Jesus recognized that the "being" we practice in our minds tends to come out in our actions. It's hard to be one man on the inside and another man on the outside--eventually, the dissonance created if the two--thought and action--are not resonating with each other is a fall of sorts.
I once read about how suspension bridges actually resonate. If that resonating pattern is ever disrupted between two separate elements that make up the structure of the bridge, it will begin to vibrate and then violently wave until it pulls itself apart. Watching a video about it was wild. It's really interesting though. The phenomenon is called mechanical resonance. It occurs when an object's natural frequency matches the frequency of an external force, causing it to vibrate at an increased amplitude. In the case of suspension bridges, if the resonating pattern between the bridge elements is disrupted, it can lead to destructive vibrations that can potentially cause the bridge to collapse.
I would love it if my thoughts always resonated with the same frequency of God, my father. I feel like when I read the stories of Jesus and the pattern of living and the words that he spoke, he resonated perfectly with the Father. I think Jesus knew the depth of physics in such a way that he understood the vibrations of man, in the same way that a mechanical engineer might understand the ways of mechanical resonance. Jesus understood that the pattern of thought caused by impure and unrighteous thoughts was the beginning of an external force beginning to change the frequency of God in us, tuning us all the more into the pattern of the world. Jesus came like a tuning fork to right the pitch--to change the vibration back. To help bring our structure back to that of perfect resonance.
Thinking of it that way gives me so much hope. Hope that I can continue to re-attune myself to the right voice, the right thought, the right actions that come from those thoughts. Lord, give me the wisdom to know the thoughts that I should allow to bear weight in my life. Let me resonate with you. Let your thoughts meet me and let them become my own thoughts.
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