Hebrews 5:7-10
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
A heightened awareness is often best when working with detail oriented projects, understanding a situation or scenario, and acting out with the best of your ability. It is an equipment of knowledge that leads to proper management. But awareness is an active skill where the knowledge is on the forefront of thought and action. This, however, requires a shift because it detracts from our Father's acting through us.
I reject this because I enjoy thinking of ways to meet needs for people, reflecting on how to encourage or correct someone, and simply walking the Spiritual path with people. All this is grand yet to be aware of your spiritual acts as they happen means you are still translating the gospel, God's truth and expected obedience, into the human language-- God's says be patient with people, care for the orphans and widows. English-only speaking people don't dream in Spanish, German, or Portuguese. We dream in English. This happens without our awareness. If we attempt to dream in Spanish without a healthy exposure and active practice of the language, we must first translate our dreams from English to broken Spanish or Spanglish at best. We are aware of this translation.
Our mind renewal, our transformation of our Man-image to God-image is like the exposure and active practice of the foreign language. It becomes normal, transparent, and we become less and less aware of what we are saying. Not that we don't actively plan or seek to meet needs and obey our Master but that our thoughts, speech, and desires don't require translation any more, we become fluent. It is, however, no different than growing up or living in the human language and trying to become fluent in the God language. We forget words, fall out of practice, become rusty because our default is the world, our sinful nature, our human language. The God language only lives out in us if we stay in communion and community with God and our fellow believers.
The language of God, the Gospel, is learned no differently than how Jesus learned it- struggles, trials, prayer, supplication, communion, community, continued obedience. With the addition of the Spirit, we are transformed to be as Him when we do the same and persevere. Don't be deceived, we are not forced to change. We must allow God's mastering through the Spirit. Resistance to these changes, unlike the movies, is very possible (Romans 1:24,26; Psalm 81:12) and sinful (Ephesians 4:30; 1 Thessalonians 5:19).
Oswald Chambers says this about our Mastering:
"If we are consciously aware that we are being mastered, that idea itself is proof that we have no master. If that is our attitude toward Jesus, we are far away from having the relationship He wants with us. He wants us in a relationship where He is so easily our Master and Teacher that we have no conscious awareness of it—a relationship where all we know is that we are His to obey" (http://utmost.org/the-missionary%E2%80%99s-master-and-teacher/).
