Thursday, June 19, 2008

Daily words of wisdom

Every day of this school, I feel like I need another week to process everything thats been fed to me. Just one-liners could take a lifetime to understand, and I am given one-liners for nearly 3 hours of my day. Here's the one I will share for today:

When you're right with God, you think like God.

If you are in the presence of God, you can trust your thoughts to be true because you have God's brain.

1 Corinthians 2:6-16
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him" (this is in the old test. btw... meaning that Paul is saying "you guys couldnt, but I can!")— but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him? (old test. again)" But we have the mind of Christ.



Did you get that? When Jesus died, we received a new body, which included a new mind. What Paul is saying here is that when we got this new body, we were able to do things that others from the bible couldn't do before, like see things in heaven and hear things from heaven. We dont have to wait to do that right now. You can go and grab things from heaven and bring them down to earth instead of waiting for things to fall from heaven once you do things right on earth. sorry.. that was a complete tangent, although that ones true too.

You have the mind of Christ inside of you, so when you are right with God, you can think like God. Indecisive about something? how's you relationship with God? is it good? what are you thinking now? Well, thats what God wants because its what he's thinking too!

i will probably end up rereading this and having to re-explain a million things, but its a good start. some simple mind food for you all at home...

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