How do people view you

Communication, verbally or otherwise, is essentially creating a mental picture in another person’s mind similar to the mental picture in the speaker’s mind. In conversations, every sound we hear, motion we see, smell we detect, or touch we feel creates some part of a picture that develops in our minds. A mental picture appears as we piece together the inputs we receive and process them based on our past training and life experiences, as well as present emotions. Individual people arrange these information fragments in distinctive ways to form unique pictures; they may arrange them differently at other times. These pictures can differ slightly or significantly. A speaker can sometimes transfer a more complete representation of the picture in his mind with additional or more specific words, as well as other means of presentation. Many pictures are most easily communicated when compared to a presently known image. People with similar backgrounds and experiences may be able to exchange mental pictures more easily and quickly. Mental pictures may represent images, ideas, concepts, conclusions, or understandings. Students bring this endeavor to a deeper challenge when they undertake examination of the Bible. The ideas and concepts mentioned in the Bible depend on creating work pictures since the topics are so different than attitudes, events, and commitments that surround us in the present day. These mental pictures gain a greater focus when one depends upon the indwelling Holy Spirit to clarify them. We need to depend on the Holy Spirit to do just this, clarify our mental pictures of godly elements to life. A recent post mentioned that while the mental picture of death is not really a cessation of existence, but a separation of something. While alive, we may say “I am dead to that habit,” or I am dead to that person. Physical death separates the body from an earthly existence, however spiritual death speaks of a separation from God. The opposite of death is life. Whereas death means separation to something, life means union with something. There is physical life, meaning all the systems of a physical body are functional to some degree and there is spiritual life, which means we have a union with God. This union was made possible because of Jesus’ sacrifice and is protected via the indwelling Holy Spirit. Heaven is a description of a place focused only on God, and inhabited by beings that exist to praise and serve Him. If a person is inhabited by the Holy Spirit while in their physical life, it might be accurate to think of them as being a bit of Heaven on earth. Let’s ask the Holy Spirit to help us display godly actions towards others and display a bit of Heaven on Earth.