Do you constantly berate yourself with harsh questions like:
Why did I do that?
Why haven’t I?
Why am I not like others?
How often do you speak kindly to yourself?
When we are a child of God we are challenged to have the mind of Christ.
“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:16 NIV
To have the mind of Christ means to think like he thinks to speak like He speaks.
God created us for His pleasure, he delights in you.
Rev 4:11
“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are, and were created.”
God your creator does not berate you or condemn you. He speaks words of love and life over you.
God convicts us when we are not pleasing Him but he doesn’t condemn. He is so gracious and quick to forgive.
So when thoughts come in your mind that are contrary to what God speaks over you, you must challenge that thinking and throw it out!
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV
I think we all need to train our minds to do this, lasso those thoughts and bring them into alignment with Gods words.
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
Philippians 4:8
This verse is easy to read not always easy to put into practise.
We may challenge our thoughts about others and try and think admirable and lovely thoughts about them. We must also think good thoughts about ourselves.
If God created us for His pleasure and delights in us. Then when we start to talk negatively over ourselves (His art work!) We are hurting Gods heart.
When we start living with the mind of Christ and daily renew our minds we will think differently and act differently.
When we walk around our streets and when we walk into our work place and live amongst our family, we will think like Jesus about the people He has put in our lives.
We will speak life over them we will love them like Jesus loves them.
Let’s pray
Jesus thank you that when we belong to you we have your mind.
I ask now that you will renew my mind wash it clean.
Let me think like you think about me and the people in my life.
Show me what you think about my situation,so that I can speak over myself and others with your life giving words.
Commenti