Something got severed.
Instinct and intellect were always meant to work together, but somewhere along the way they got separated. What should be operating as one system inside of us now functions like two opposing forces. The intellect tries to lead, analyze, and control everything, while the instinct—the God nature embedded inside of us—gets pushed into the background. But when Jesus speaks, He constantly demonstrates a different way of living. He moves from instinct. He hears and responds. He acts from alignment instead of overthinking the outcome.
The instinct of God already lives inside of us. Just like animals instinctively know how to survive, camouflage, breathe, and respond to danger without thinking about it, humanity carries an embedded awareness of God. But intellect—conditioning, culture, fear, statistics, and past experiences—often overrides that instinct. Instead of letting intuition guide intellect, we flip the order and let intellect hold the reins. That’s like letting the horse ride the rider. It’s powerful, but without the right guidance it will run you into the ground.
Jesus shows the opposite. His instinct always holds the reins. When thousands needed food, the intellect asked “how.” The instinct already knew. When people asked Him what to say or do, He responded with alignment to the Father: “I can of mine own self do nothing… as I hear, I judge.” That’s instinctual living—moving from the embedded God nature rather than trying to manufacture outcomes.
So the question becomes: what is shaping your intellect?
Because your curriculum becomes your current.
Every day we’re enrolling ourselves in a school. What we read, watch, scroll, and listen to becomes the pathway our mind runs on. That current eventually becomes our currency—what flows out of us naturally. That’s why keeping the red words of Jesus as the curriculum matters. Not as religion, but as a lifelong alignment process. When instinct and intellect come back into harmony, something powerful happens: you stop trying to manufacture life and start becoming a pipeline for it. You stop trying to control everything and start allowing God to steer through you.
And when God puts the reins on you, you begin to put the reins on life.
