The Mind Of God
“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthian 2:16).
The Bible identifies that there is a gap between our natural thoughts and God’s level of thinking. God says, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:9).
Our thinking focuses on the natural temporary things and pleasures of this world, which is contrary to the eternal things of God: “Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” (James 4:4).
The natural human interest tends to make us ignore the Word of God, and makes us enemies of God. John wrote, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15).
God’s desire is for us to understand His thoughts, and read His mind, and to think like He does. The Bible is God’s interest, and God also wants us to be interested in the Bible, that we should “desire the pure milk of the word” (1 Peter 2:2).
It is Scripture that provides the missing connection between us and God. The Bible gives us insight into the deep things, and the motivations and thinking of God: “God has revealed them to us through His Spirit” (1 Corinthians 2:10).
The Holy Spirit has revealed the mind of God to us in the Bible. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God: “For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21).
God is calling us to understand His written Word, the Holy Bible, and to change our heart’s desires. Scripture says, “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them” (Ezekiel 36:27).
Though Jesus Christ is God, He submitted Himself completely to the Scripture, including death by crucifixion on the cross, in order to fulfill the Scripture. Therefore, “leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps” (1 Peter 2:21).
Jesus Christ clearly revealed that it was Scripture He was obeying as He said to those officers who came to arrest Him: “I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled” (Mark 14:49).
The Bible is the revelation and the mind of God. The Word of God is the only Mediator between God and mankind, which is Jesus Christ: “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).
God gave us the Holy Bible so that through the Scripture we would know the mind of God. “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (John 1:18).
The Holy Bible is that only begotten Son of God, who is in the heart of the Father. Scripture is the true mind of God. That’s why Jesus says, “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me” (John 14:11).
God dwells in Scripture, and all Scripture is the mind of God, which is that same mind which was in Christ. The Lord wants us to mind the Bible, as it is written: “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5).
PRAYER
Heavenly Father, fill my heart with the Spirit of Scripture and make me spiritually minded, in Jesus name. Amen.
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