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Christmas 5 Reshaping the Mind
Christmas 5 Reshaping the Mind
“Are you out of your mind? - Where is your mind? - Keep your mind on what you’re doing. - My mind can’t handle it. - He’s playing mind games. - They’re trying to get into my head. - I can’t get my mind around that. - He’s got a screw loose somewhere. - He’s not playing with a full deck. - His elevator doesn’t go to the top floor.” All of these are common expressions recognizing the importance of how we think.
The first part of God’s recovery process is reshaping how we think. Created in His image we have been given a mind. It’s purpose? To think with the same principles He does but to adapt them uniquely, creatively, as He has made our individuality to function. He has given us a mind manual, Holy Scripture, to begin the reshaping process. It is filled with the principles that develop the uniqueness He has given us.
So salvation is not a generic process where we all become ‘cookie-cutter look-and-act-alikes.’ Each of us is special and formed to be special, unique and different from one another based on the mind of Jesus, the way He thought and the insights He gave, that made Him special and unique.
What the world and the devil want is for everyone to think, feel and act the same, conforming out of fear, thinking and acting to get what you can while you can and grasping for control in every moment. This kind of thinking leads more to using people instead of loving them, fitting in instead of leading out, hiding who you are instead of honest self-expression, getting worldly wealth and approval instead of seeing life in an eternal perspective, instant gratification instead of building character and integrity. God gives the kind of recovery process that encourages the individual creativity of the mind. His principles are His mind recognizing and urging the creative freedom of the individual to think in ways that release the mind to fresh and courageous discovery. It is a relational freedom led by the Holy Spirit.
Paul says it beautifully, “Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you (Rom.12:2 Message Bible).” “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom (2Co.3:17).”
Consider for a moment Jesus’ teaching as to what is most important and how it is so different from the world in which we are called to witness, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself (Lk.10:27).”
How each of us ponder that in our mind and let it ‘sink in’ will determine how we begin to really be creative in our uniqueness. That Great Commandment is the Great Reshaper of what God has intended each of us to have and that is a Great Mind. Think about it. Stay tuned………
“Are you out of your mind? - Where is your mind? - Keep your mind on what you’re doing. - My mind can’t handle it. - He’s playing mind games. - They’re trying to get into my head. - I can’t get my mind around that. - He’s got a screw loose somewhere. - He’s not playing with a full deck. - His elevator doesn’t go to the top floor.” All of these are common expressions recognizing the importance of how we think.
The first part of God’s recovery process is reshaping how we think. Created in His image we have been given a mind. It’s purpose? To think with the same principles He does but to adapt them uniquely, creatively, as He has made our individuality to function. He has given us a mind manual, Holy Scripture, to begin the reshaping process. It is filled with the principles that develop the uniqueness He has given us.
So salvation is not a generic process where we all become ‘cookie-cutter look-and-act-alikes.’ Each of us is special and formed to be special, unique and different from one another based on the mind of Jesus, the way He thought and the insights He gave, that made Him special and unique.
What the world and the devil want is for everyone to think, feel and act the same, conforming out of fear, thinking and acting to get what you can while you can and grasping for control in every moment. This kind of thinking leads more to using people instead of loving them, fitting in instead of leading out, hiding who you are instead of honest self-expression, getting worldly wealth and approval instead of seeing life in an eternal perspective, instant gratification instead of building character and integrity. God gives the kind of recovery process that encourages the individual creativity of the mind. His principles are His mind recognizing and urging the creative freedom of the individual to think in ways that release the mind to fresh and courageous discovery. It is a relational freedom led by the Holy Spirit.
Paul says it beautifully, “Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you (Rom.12:2 Message Bible).” “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom (2Co.3:17).”
Consider for a moment Jesus’ teaching as to what is most important and how it is so different from the world in which we are called to witness, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself (Lk.10:27).”
How each of us ponder that in our mind and let it ‘sink in’ will determine how we begin to really be creative in our uniqueness. That Great Commandment is the Great Reshaper of what God has intended each of us to have and that is a Great Mind. Think about it. Stay tuned………
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