Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind, and with all your strength. (Matthew 22:36-38, Mark 12:29-31, Luke 10:26-28). We are gonna work backwards with this verse in Scriptures.
The mind is a very indescribable concept of our human self. It is solely missed by all people of how powerful it really is.
Is your mind evil or good? Seriously though what do you spend most of your time thinking about?
How evil can our mind get?
- Well if you look back over time there was a man named Adolf Hitler. Yeah that guy had a brain. He used it and his horrid ideas to persecute the Jews and killed countless by standers.
- Also in 1973 abortion became OK to do. Abortion is the 2nd Holocaust rampaging across our own nation like an epidemic.
How good can our mind be?
- Konrad Adenauer tried to make everything right again after the fall of Hitler and the Holocaust and tried to move Germany forward.
- The Pro-life movements in America are standing up for the right to live life and have the chance of a lifetime to change the world. One of those children that were abortion could’ve been the doctor who would have found the cure to cancer.
How do ya think Starbucks got started? How the banks were created? How the first car developed? Where computers were thought of?
Our minds are the most creative tools in our society, culture, and life as a whole. We are the most innovative persons created to make this world a better place to live, grow, laugh, and love. We can inspire and encourage people every day.
The real question is: where is our mind when we worship our Lord God?
Sometimes we may think, “I wonder if the Hogs are gonna win the SEC division?” or “Geez I wish that guy in front of me would get a haircut,” or “Hey, that girl needs to get her hair one color and stick with it.” It seems to me, we always look at the physical during our time of worship and not in the spiritual and seek the face of God. We so got used to lifting our hands and forgot why we do it? Or we simply don’t care to worship God during the praise and worship times at church and just want to get on to the preaching. We have seriously forgotten why we worship. The whole church has forgotten what worship is. It is the way we need to live our life in no matter what circumstance stands before us or against us. King David had many circumstances in his life, but he continued to WORSHIP the Creator.
Oh right maybe we have a grand excuse of why we don’t have timeà THERE is NOT an excuse for why we don’t worship our King of Kings. He didn’t move. He didn’t leave. WE did. We have let the world grab us and pull us down from the lap of our Creator.
How did this happen?
We have gotten so caught up in our work, school, family, friends, and life in general. We have lost our gaze on the One that truly matters. Yes I am speaking from experience. I had a huge passion and desire to seek the face of God and somehow my gaze shifted. How? I can’t really say I don’t know because I do. I stopped reading and studying the Word of the Lord (Bible) and quit playing my guitar and writing to God and God alone. I slipped down from His lap. Satan and his schemes and lies caused me to slip. Why? I didn’t renew my mind as Scripture says in Romans 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Please I beg of you, the readers, don’t let the ways of this world stop you from seeking the face of God. Stay in the Word, pray and intercede for one another, sing, write, and praise Jesus Christ for what He has done. He has given us the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind (2 Tim 1:7).
Romans 8:9, However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.
But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. Since belonging to
the Lord we shall know that the Holy Spirit indwells inside us.
The only way to see divine truth is to have the Holy Spirit inside us and then the Spirit reveals to
us the divine truth.
1 Cor. 2:9-11, [9] but just as it is written, " Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him."[10] For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.[11] For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. See also 2 Sam. 23:2; Micah 3:8; Acts 1:16; Heb. 9:6-8; 2 Pet. 1:15-21; John 16:12-14.
We have the authority invested in us through Jesus Christ to rebuke the enemy and be victorious as we already are. But so many times we, as the vessel of God, forget we have that authority and Satan sees our weakness. Through that weakness Satan takes that opening in our armor and attacks (Ephesians 6:10-18).
AS we lose our focus in worship to God, Satan sees the opening for one of his plays to steal, kill, or possibly destroy us (John 10:10). Through his plays on us, we have built up a space between ourselves and our King Jesus Christ. That gap can and will be only filled when we realize we have moved and not God. He never leaves nor forsake His children (Hebrews 13:5). Remember to trust in the Lord and He will direct your paths (Proverbs 3:5-6). Also, renew your mind into Christ’s and worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23).
Worship God, Seek His face, and be creative. Write poetry, songs, articles describing His love, draw, sketch, paint, journal your thought about Him, and dance and shout with joy.
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