Psalm 101:2
I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;
How do you feel?
Pondering is awareness. The abiding Christ does not take up residence in our minds. Our minds are physical manifestations of a higher function in life. Intelligence is only one operation. It also serves to translate signals from the optic nerve from two small areas of the brain that not only allows us to see but to arrange the patterns in order to calculate distance and speed of objects. Without it we would not be able to catch a ball in our glove, or strike a ball with a bat.
Much of what the brain does is not a calculation, it functions without conscious thought. Some of these operations are performed by repetitive performance. An example might be observed in driving to one place over and over again, perhaps the grocery store. Then one day you are driving to a mall further down that same road and find yourself in the turn lane to the store without knowing why. That is a sort of muscle memory where pathways perform repetitive tasks that do not require conscious thought.
When I ask how you feel there is an individual response that determines the answer based on personal perspective. If we have been sick it means one thing. If we have lost a loved one it means another. It can be physical or emotional. How do we feel spiritually?
This life in Christ is physical, emotional and spiritual. We know what happens to us when we do not eat properly and exercise, it affects our health. Gaining control of our emotional wellbeing can be tough for us to control, it does not always operate on a conscious level. Trauma can devastate a healthy mind.
What do we do to maintain a healthy spiritual life? Do the mind and emotions take too large a role in a life in Christ where blamelessness is determined by education and emotion? Just because a thing is legal does not make it right. Spiritual concepts are not within our control.
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
The new heart is not subject to intellect or emotion, it is the temple of the abiding presence. To know it one must ponder it.
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,