AI - Anointed Intelligence Part 2

My wife is mostly in charge of ALL the appointments involving care in our family. That includes me and of course the boys. She’s even made my vasectomy appointment…and the first time, she told me about it AFTER it was scheduled. Recently, she made me a dentist appointment for me and so I went.

But walking in to that office, smelling the sterilized air mixed with aerosolized teeth and notes of bubble gum and mint triggered something in me. Then sitting in the chair, getting the paper bib with the old school bead necklace with alligator clips, and looking up at the light overhead, turned up what was brewing. And as the shrill sound of what I imagine has been used in primitive torture situations gets inside the megaphone of my mouth, followed by the piercing pain of a thousand needles stabbing my gums, I am taken back to every other time of affliction disguised as oral hygiene. (They use a new laser-water scraper instead of the old school chisel and pick, just fyi.)

I hate the dentist in case you couldn’t tell! My mom thinks it’s because when I was really young, I went to the hospital to see my great grandpa before he died. He had an oxygen mask on and I was told shortly after our visit that he had passed away. Not too much later, I went to the dentist, where they wanted to put laughing gas (that looked like my great grandpa’s death mask) on me AND my mom wasn’t allowed in the room.

I think it’s mostly because when I was young I had multiple cavities EVERY time I went to the dentist and HATED getting drilled on.

Either way, the dentist has been a trigger for me. And triggers are a big buzz right now.

By definition: a trigger is a stimulus, whether external or internal, that elicits a strong emotional, physical, psychological, or physiological response, often one that seems disproportionate to the situation. These triggers can be things like smells, sounds, images, or even specific thoughts or behaviors that evoke a past emotional experience or trauma.

Do you have any triggers? Some are worse than others. Maybe yours are debilitating. Perhaps you know people who are crippled or even medicated because of theirs.

But, living triggered is very much a way of Artificial Intelligence. Let me explain.

To be clear, I am in no way making light of the incident that created the trigger. Those are real and need to be respected and appreciated. The trigger itself is not the firing of the gun.

But just living controlled by the trigger(s) in our life is AI in the worst sense. It’s just deciding we’re stuck and we say, “that’s triggering for me,” or “I’m really triggered right now.” Like saying the target at the gun range is responsible for the firearm discharging. And we either expect others to accommodate or, we hide and live avoiding this thing because it has so much control over us.

When Jesus tells his disciples that he must die, Peter emphatically responds by rebuking Jesus. Jesus redirects and even calls out Peter’s alignment with the things of Satan.

This is the human way. This is artificial intelligence. This is living triggered.

Because Peter did NOT have the mind of Christ nor the things of God in his head. He was being triggered due to a lifetime of planning and waiting for the overthrow of the Roman rule who was seen as the enemy.

Anointed Intelligence means we recognize triggers but refuse to be ruled by them. We see a different Peter in the book of Acts who no longer fought back swinging a sword at the opposition.

I have to tell myself to relax in the dentist’s chair as the light beams down like an interrogation turned torture. Artificial Intelligence would keep me from going to the dentist. Artificial Intelligence would demand cleaning my teeth with a paint brush. Anointed Intelligence helps me keep my teeth healthy and my emotions in check when going to the dentist…no matter how uncomfortable or even painful it is.

The Holy Spirit empowers us to break cycles, not by denying the trigger, but by redeeming it. Artificial Intelligence can stimulate emotional reactions based on programmed inputs, but Anointed Intelligence transforms responses through surrender to the Holy Spirit.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:8

Acts 1:8

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Brett