I reached the curb in front of the airport, where my friend would pick me up. I was calm and relaxed and thought of the great conversation we would have. To my surprise, she wasnt there yet. That was odd because shes the kind of person who is never late for anything. I remained calm and peaceful. I spotted what I thought was her car and took a step forward, but the car went past me, and there was a stranger in it. Not more than three minutes had passed, but I realized I was anxious and worried. What had happened to her? Had she been in an accident? Did she forget me? From clam-ness to anxiety in less than three minutes, and nothing had changed----nothing except my mind. Worried thoughts struggled inside me. I pulled out my cell phone and started to dial, when I heard a car honking, as she pulled up to the curb. My mind shifted once again to calmness, even joyfulness. How quickly my emotions had shifted in that short period of time. My mind had quickly changed when my circumstances did. Sometimes I find it easy to hear God speak. . . and to be-elieve without any difficulty. Yet at other times, worry and anx-iety push their way into my mind. The Bible says we are to walk by faith and not by sight, but that way at the airport, I was definitely being led by what I saw. When we worry, we are not walking in faith and trusting God. For a long period of my life, I had a critical, suspicious, and judgmental, but I was a Christian. I was going along with the same thinking and mindset that I had known for years, I had no awareness that my wrong thinking was causing any problems. Because no one had taught me, I didnt know I could do anything to change my thought life. It simply had not oc-curred to me. No one had taught me about the proper condi-tion for the believers mind. God offers us a new way to think and a new way to live. God has called us to renew our minds (see Romans 12:2). For most of us, it is an ongoing process. We dont control our thinking all at one time. One day I read 1 Corinthians 2:16, where Paul says we have the mind of Christ. What could he have meant? I pondered that verse for days. I concluded that for us to have the mind of Christ doesnt mean were sinless or perfect. It does mean we begin to think the way Christ thinks. If we have His mind, we think on those things that are good and honorable and loving. I confessed to God how many times my mind had focused on the ugly, the mean, and the harsh. In 1 Corinthians 2:14, Paul wrote, But the natural, non-spiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him. . . be-cause they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appre-ciated. . . . Yes, I thought, thats exactly how it works. The natural mind----even that of the Christians whose minds are tam-pered with by Satan----doesnt grasp what God is doing. Those things seems foolish. We must remind ourselves that we have Christs mind----we have the ability to think loving and caring thoughts. We can defeat Satans attacks.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:28:15 +0000
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