When We Speak

When we speak, this is what we assume goes on: a neuron fires, then the mouth makes words. Another way to think of this process is: a thought forms in the mind, which activates the physical brain so that mental concepts may be expressed, or transmitted, via physical sounds produced by the mouth. What we assume is the we have a thought and then we speak.

This is going to be a short study. It deals with a concept transmitted physically through Mark 13:11. In the latter portion of the statement which the only begotten son of God put forth, we find this explicitly expressed: “it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.”

Read that again. It is a concept connected to disciple-specific possibilities, but which in no way depends upon those particular events for its own measure. It is a concept that is fully able to stand on its own two feet. The examination of the latter part of the statement, I guarantee, in no way takes the concept out of context.

Let us examine the concept as it stands. “it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.” I have long affirmed that mind and spirit are one and the same; this has been a central tenet throughout my writings. Think about it. The mind, while connected to the physical brain, is in no way bound to it. Medical science accepts that the mind can continue to function after the physical death of the brain.

So, we think it is within ourselves that thoughts and concepts originate, but, the son of God says that is not true. Spirit is the realm of God; no thought can ever be hidden from him. While we may be allowed some elbow room to freely organize and express, we do not own, we do not rent, we merely have been granted access. The mind is the spirit; the spirit is the mind of God, who is Holy and Reverend.

Spontaneity is called to mind by the statement found in Mark 13:11. That would be interpreted as thoughts or concepts that are not forced into the mold of preconception. Our free thoughts are not our own. Our minds are not our own. We have been granted access to the Holy mind of God – the Holy Spirit of Truth – which agrees in one, joining the spiritual father to the physical son.

Christ is the Truth, being imbued with the Holy Ghost. His mind is the spirit of truth, making him one with the father. Like father like son, after all. The son expressed to all potential children of God, via the Holy Ghost, that he would see us be one together with the father and son, as we find in John 17:21, “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.”

Think of your mind, or spirit, as one and the same with God and Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16 tells us, in the plainest of all words that, “we have the mind of Christ.”