Why do you think the way you do? This is a great question to ask yourself. Are you influenced by what others say? Are you influenced by what tell lie vision told you? What influences your way of thinking and do you react the same way as everyone else does? The reason why I ask these questions and ask why you think this way. This is because if you are following what you are being told, then you are not the director of your life. You are just an extra in the movie of your life. Everyone will sit on the judgment seat of Christ and will have to answer the way they lived their life. Your life lived proves what you believe. “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” The standard to which you will be judged is not what this world teaches, but God’s standard. You may think this is harsh, but God has set the standard and many are not living by that standard. “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
The scriptures teach us that we must renew our minds. A life in Christ is a new way of thinking. Paul changed his way of thinking after he met Jesus. Peter’s way of thinking changed after he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Have you changed your way of thinking? It’s not difficult to change the way you think, you just have to be disciplined at it. The devil uses tell lies vision, and other influences of this world to change the way you think, but what does the Bible say about changing the way you think? “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” The Bible also says, “But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” How many of you believe that you have the mind of Christ? “For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.” How many of you believe that you are equal to God? You are created in His image, right? Jesus didn’t think it was robbery to be equal with God for God was in Him. “But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.” How many of you see yourself as one with Christ? “Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.” Now let this mind be in you. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” How many of you have humbled yourself even to the point of death? “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
I pray that your eyes of understanding be enlightened to renew your mind. Once you do and never see yourself as less than what Jesus paid for, you will have victory in your life. Nothing will be impossible for you. Be blessed, my friends.