Lies

I re-watched Inception pretty recently (does over one month ago count as recent?)Well, I was intrigued by the movie in so many ways maybe because this time I understood what was going on (I thinkJ). Anyway, if you haven’t watched it, I think you should. It’s basically about a guy(Dominic Cobb) who together with another guy (Arthur), major in extracting information from people’s subconscious while they sleep. Contrary to their usual speciality, they are tasked to plant an idea into the subconscious of a business rival of their employer. The reward was enticing and they were not left with much of a choice so they embark on this project.

Cobb eventually describes how he had done this before with his wife Mal. He says while they slept, that he planted a thought in what he descibes as 'her deepest and secret place'. Even when she awoke, that thought possessed her and subsequently led to her ruin.

It has been said by countless people in countless forums that we need to watch our thoughts. Some people even say it in cool ways like: Your attitude determines your altitude! Think positively… How you think affects/determines what you can or can’t do... There is nothing more powerful than a thought... Blah... blah... blah... These things are true but I think that there is something we are still missing.

During the Inception process Cobb and his associates had to be careful so that their target would not realise that the thought was not his. It had to be done carefully for if he realised that it was foreign, he would fight it and reject it.

There are things that were planted deep within us. They are so deep that we cannot see or realise that they are not true. We cannot see that they are thoughts and lies that we embraced which have become a part of us. They are so deep that we don’t fight against them. They have become a part of our default settings. Some of these lies were incepted by our parents, television, movies, friends, conclusions we derived from observing people or things. Getting rid of these things is hard because the lie has blended so well with reality that it is hard to tell apart.

Everyone who has ever read my blogs or been my friend knows that I struggled in Medical school- especially the earlier years. I can still remember the day that I saw the lie which had penetrated my being. I remember stopping and staring in awe. You see… I had good grades growing up but when I got to medical school, I felt like my brain had gone into a deep sleep and stopped working properly or something. I believed that I had become and was STUPID. It almost seems funny now but it really wasn’t then. I remember the day I first saw it for the lie it was. I was in Soroti, talking to the Lord and He showed me that it wasn’t true. It was not real. It was just a lie that had received power when I believed it.

I watched on television last week a beautiful girl who acidified her own face because she thought she was ugly. Lies I tell you. Lies!!! She sees the truth now but she cannot go back. Her face has had scarring and isn’t yet even fully recovered from the damage done.

The devil is the father of lies and he does like messing with our minds. Maybe you believe that no matter how hard you try, you won’t amount to much or you won’t get better? Maybe it’s that you can only do one thing and nothing else? That you have always been a weakling? Maybe it’s that you are ‘unlucky’ or maybe you blame yourself for something that happened and carry the guilt with you? Hey, I don’t know! But I pray that God will help you see the lies that you have believed which are holding you in bondage and that He will set you free. I pray that God will help us to continue to pay attention to the way we think so that we may think on things that are true, perfect, praiseworthy, good etc (Phil 4:8) For:

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. (Prov 23:7)