It’s interesting how life experiences, negative and positive, particularly the negatives, force us to look at life from a different angle, from a different viewpoint. They force us to re-arrange our priorities and to restructure our way of thinking. This, I believe, is the most difficult process of all.
Biblically speaking, it is called repentance; a turning away from an erroneous way of thinking and turning to God’s way of seeing things. How difficult is this process? If we read how the Lord himself describes how far we are from his ways, we can see that it takes a massive undertaking to bring us “up to par.” “…my ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts, for as distant as the heavens are from the earth, so are my thoughts from yours” (Isaiah ).
Well my dear brothers, there seems to be quite a distance from His way of thinking to ours. Is it possible to bridge this astronomical gap? Humanly speaking, this is impossible. There is absolutely no way that our puny mind which is steeped in deeply ingrained humanistic generational thought patterns and habits can break out of its inherited paradigm.
Are we doomed then to wallow the rest of our lives in the quagmire of human reasoning or is there a way out? “Hallelujah, yes there is! “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold they are made new” (II Corinthians 5: ). When we turn to the Lord Jesus Christ we receive the “mind of Christ” through the power His Spirit. But this is just the beginning of a lifetime process called sanctification… There are countless lessons to be learned along this road and we will be reviewing some of them through these blogs.
