so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived—
these things God has prepared for those who love him” —
for God has revealed them to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit within? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, 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.
Nice austin, I agree, when we serve others we are taking on the ministry of christ and I think our mind often follows in pursuit.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Austin about the relationship between the mind of Christ and "servant-hood," and I would add that having the mind of Christ also seems to include a kind of agreement to keep an open channel between the Christian and God.
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean is, like Austin mentioned, we don't know all of Christ's thoughts, and even the ones that He has made plain to us, we do not fathom completely, nor can we wholly define what "having the mind of Christ" looks like in real life.
That said, if we just say to God, "Okay Lord, I don't necessarily know what 'having the mind of Christ' looks like all of the time, so I'm just going to ask You and trust You to bring that to fruition in my life," God will mystically, graciously, and lovingly do the rest.
I think that if I want to go beyond this miraculous manifestation, I can ask God to make me aware of how He is molding my mind to more resemble His as well.