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| “But we have the mind of Christ.” |
| —1 Corinthians 2:16b |
We were born already stained by sin. Every action was controlled by the sin nature we inherited from Adam.
But then God reached out to us in love through the Holy Spirit and transformed our lives. Though still bent toward sin, we now were given supernatural power to choose God’s way.
Whereas we once were enslaved to evil, God has set us free and given us His Holy Spirit to lead us along a new pathway in our lives.
The Apostle Paul takes note of this in 1 Corinthians 2:12-16:
What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
As this new day begins, let us surrender to the Holy Spirit and allow the mind of Christ to guide our actions throughout this day.
As we greet the world with God’s love flowing out of us, He will touch the lives of others in a startling and amazing way. We will become vessels of His goodness and His righteousness. We will shine the Light of His love into a dark and needy world.
