A Beautiful Mind

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Jesus Christ.” Phil. 2:5

God exhorted His children through Paul to work to develop and exercise the mind of Christ that each child was given. The command is the same today for you and me. At creation God gave each of us the capacity to think like Him, move like Him, and respond like Him thereby enabling His movement through us. His mind in us must be exercised, massaged and molded to develop into the minds for which we were created – the mind of Christ.

I have started a wonderful Bible Study called The Mind of Christ, T.W. Hunt and Claude King. They list six characteristics of the Christlike mind with the first characteristic being ‘alive.’

Alive – ‘The mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.” Rom. 8:6. I have seen this first hand through teaching Griefshare. The only way to receive peace in trials and suffering is to concentrate and set our focus on the spiritual instead of the earthly. Through training our minds and intentionally focusing on Christ we move our thought patterns and perceptions to think like Christ and adopt the attitudes of Christ. A Romans 8:6 life is when the intentional focus on the spiritual moves into our subconscious living and determines our thoughts and actions.

We are going to experience trials and heartaches no matter how we think or live. The difference will be in our focus and in our belief that God is a God of love and goodness. There are truths we must settle in our minds before we can have a mind like Christ. Some of these truths are the truths that Jesus displayed during His walk on earth. His walk consisted of a walk of God’s agenda and will. His mind was to only do the will of His Father, so when the flesh of Christ was tempted His mind took over. His walk was one of humility and servanthood. He came with a mind to serve God in whatever capacity God chose for Him. He came with a sacrificial mindset that God would save and redeem many through the loss of One life – He was a willing participant to lose life so all could receive life. These are a few ways that the mind of God was in working in the life of Jesus.