If Christians invest their time and energy in the foulness and problematic things of this world, then the Christian’s life will have no power. Shouldn’t Christians be worn out by this brokenness? Our eyes get grimy by what we see, our ears get clogged by what we hear, and afterward our brains become polluted by what we have allowed in. We cannot take a stroll on any road of any city without seeing it. It takes time and practice, yet it can be performed. We should pray that he assists us with getting our minds focused on what is acceptable and unadulterated. Most importantly, we need to be reading God’s Word every day and seek him in prayer. We need to remove the destructive intake with healthy material. Paul advises us to program our brains with the thoughts that are just, unadulterated, true, of good report, ethical, and worthy of praise.ĭo any of us have issues with polluted musings and fantasies? We need to look at what we are placing into our heads through the internet, TV, books, motion pictures, and magazines. What we put into our brains will influence what is displayed in our actions and is spread by our words.
That should precede all the other things in this life. In any case, the most important need for us is to break through to Christ. Life is brimming with its more modest issues and obviously, they are genuine to us. Paul said that whatever things are lovely, honest, just, and true, we are to think on those things, the things of Christ. We should not turn out to be excessively attached to what is just transitory and temporary.įinally, 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). The more we consider the life that is around us from God’s perspective, the more we live in amicability and harmony with him. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine." Can Christians Grow Closer to Having God's Thoughts? The New Living Translation puts it this way: “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. This is the counteract-ant or antidote to being materialistic we acquire the appropriate and proper viewpoint on material merchandise when we take on God’s perspective on life. To “set your affection on things above” signifies that we should take a gander at life according to God’s point of view and look for what he wants. This gives us an alternate point of view on our lives here on the planet. My Father’s house has many rooms if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am ( John 14:2-3). The Christian’s genuine home is the place where Christ resides. He took our place on the cross, yours and mine. Our lives died when Christ died for our sins. “For you died” means that we ought to have as little craving for this world as a dead individual has. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God ( Colossians 3:2-3). Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. Man’s thoughts and ways are only on earthly things, not heavenly things. If the unrighteous man would only forsake his wicked ways and thoughts, and come to the Lord, God will have mercy on him and pardon him ( Isaiah 55:7). Man thought that he knew all that he needed to know. So again, we see that man would not and did not think as God thought. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles” ( Acts 13:46). Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. The people of Israel rejected the gospel, so God rejected them and sent the gospel out. Paul mentions in Romans 10:21 that God had stretched his hand to the Jews unto a disobedient people.
God had given the gospel first to the Jews. When we see "My thoughts are not your thoughts" In Isaiah, God is talking to the Jewish nation. What Does 'My Thoughts Are Not Your Thoughts' Mean? To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’ All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations - ( Isaiah 65:2). I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me I was found by those who did not seek me. The gospel descended from heaven, exclusively by revelation, since man’s reasoning never follows the road of redemption. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ” ( Galatians 1:11-12). Paul stated, “But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. There is no man-made way that could have ever come up with it or at any point devise it. God’s way is unique in relation to man’s way.
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