Colossians 1:13 Meaning Who Delivered Us Out of the Power

The power of darkness is not out in the world. It is the unconscious grip of thinking that runs your life while you take those thoughts to be you. In that state you react and you suffer, and you cannot see it, because you are inside it.

To be delivered is simpler than you imagine. The moment you notice the anxious mind instead of being lost in it, a space opens, and you stand in awareness rather than drown in thought. That awakened state, present and clear, is the kingdom you were carried into, and it is not a place you reach later but a way of being here now.

Darkness has no substance of its own, which is why no one has ever succeeded in beating it out of a room. Unawareness works the same way: fighting the mind feeds it, since the fighter is the mind divided against itself, and the moment watching begins the whole apparatus loses its power without a struggle.

Being carried across is a change of center, not of place. The same man stands in the same room with the same history, and yet he is no longer identified with the voice in his head, and what ruled him yesterday moves across him like weather. Nothing was taken from him except the belief that he was that voice.