The meta physical pleasure that we experience from our thought life.

Every persons mind is filled with ideas. Most people who are in a resting state will have many ideas ...like voices in the head about somethings they are dealing with in their lives. This resting state of the mind is where we develop our logical reasoning. Whether we are listening to our minds or we are blocking the voices out yet we are always thinking about something. So people seldom experience a mind that is a complete rest. Over the years Ive learned to take my thoughts captive.

Our brains have pathways. They are like a circuit board on electronics. When God created the earth He thought about the created thing and it was created. Everything that exist originated from the thought of God. Gods mind was not just a vehicle for a thought but it was the expression of a desire. He desired it and He designed it according to His idea. Every idea of God was in perfect unity with His desire. But that is not how we experience the function of our minds.

When we think about something it requires us to move in order to obtain it. But God has made us like Himself. He has given us the ability to think something that is pleasurable and experience the idea as if it was put into action. But since we are not able to think a thought and have it appear in the physical realm we do not believe that we can derive pleasure from minds. So our natural way of thinking is to make a list and and put it into action. Our natural inclination is to believe that our minds are just a vehicle to store knowledge.

But if God designs everything by desiring it and designing it according to the idea dont you think that when He created us He did not leave us to think like Himself without communicating to us as social creatures? So He not only designed the function of our minds but He speaks to us so that as we listen we experience the connection to our purpose by the communication of His acceptance. So God has created us with spiritual minds. The apostle calls this "the spirit of the mind". He is teaching that we can have a renewed mind through Gods communication of His word and Spirit.

This is kind of like attrition. You begin to learn your occupation and then you master it and you experience the success like you being pushed along by tail winds. When we meditate on Gods word we experience the effects as going from one conversion to another. When we experience a new conversion then we are developing a habit to further conversion. The apostle says to be converted in you mind.

God has communicate in His word the outline of how He designs the things He creates and recreates, the quality of His desire and the pleasure that He receives in the beauty of the thing. Every thing that God plans is done through His laws, decrees, statutes, curses, and covenants. God acts according to these gifts to put into motion all reality in perfect unity. So Gods view of the end of the thing He creates is the perfect idea according to these gifts that are put into existence and sustained. He is pleased with the idea as if it already existed before it is put into time.

Now this is exactly why God has given us an imagination. Without our imagination we could not achieve mystery. We would always be churning the idea around in our minds. We would never be able to enjoy the ends of the idea that we envision. Our minds rest when we speak the gifts and experience the illumination of the idea that consumes our understanding. This conversion is what we call a sanctified imagination. Our joy gets consumed in His joy, our anger in His, our tendency to experience the cursed things that are consumed in His righteous indignation, and our natural experience of the weight of our corruption in the calm rest of His consuming power. In this way we develop deep grooves of life in the pathways of our minds.