June 4th
"I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind." Romans 7:23
God will not release us from anything that has enslaved us until we've come to the mind of Christ in the matter.
Take the bondage of unforgiveness, for example. When we want to be free from the burden of not forgiving, we want God simple to take that person out of our minds. We want Him to wave a magic wand so we'll never have to think about that person again.
That's not how God works. He wants to transform and renew our minds so we can think the thoughts of Christ about the person we are supposed to forgive.
June 3rd
"Who has known the Lord's mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:16
We posses the mind of Christ, but we still have the full capacity to think with the mind of the flesh. We are mentally bilingual, you might say. But in order to experience liberation in Him, we must let His language become our native tongue.
Look at it this way: my older daughter is almost fluent in Spanish, but she still thinks mostly in English. Why? Because she practices it more. Her thoughts follow the language she uses most often.
The same concept is true of you and me. We will think with the mental language we practice most: ours or Christ's.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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