I am currently reading John Piper's latest book "Think". I love the challenge and aim of this book, which is to awaken our minds and exercise them in light of God's Truth. Piper's challenge is to be committed to Jesus' command in Matthew 22:37 "And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."
The mind and the heart are to work in tandem and are to serve as vehicles to an ever growing, deeper relationship with Christ. I loved this quote from the book...
"The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart. The apex of glorifying God is enjoying him with the heart. But this is an empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who he really is. That is mainly what the mind is for."
I resonate with this so much, because I desperately as a follower of Christ want to think rightly about Him, knowing that everything else in my walk with Him will flow from there. I think if we are not careful a lot of our walk and relationship with Christ can flow out of sensationalism and emotion and not be grounded in Truth. There are so many dangers in that, one of which, we may lend ourselves to creating a God of our image, also we can become easily swayed by the ever changing circumstances of our lives. We can become as James said, "double-minded man who is unstable in all his ways."
Exercising our minds, not out of arrogance, but out of a true desire to know God rightly and out of an understanding that in turn it would fuel our worship, is a commitment that I want to have a goal that quite frankly all believers should be committed to. If we allow our minds to grow dormant, we run the risk of worshipping God from a shallow and maybe even hollow base. So may we allow the Spirit of God to stretch us and fuel our passion to love Him with all of our heart, soul, and mind! Just a rambling. God Bless You.
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Orlando- For your mind:
Five grand conditions of prevailing prayer always before your mind.
1) Entire dependence upon the merits of meditation of the Lord Jesus Christ, as the only ground of any claim for blessing (John 14:13,14..15:16)
2) Separation from all known sin. If we regard iniquity in our hearts, the Lord will not hear us, for it would be sanctioning sin. (Psalm 66:18)
3) Faith in God's word of promise as confirmed by His oath. Not to believe in Him is to make Him both a liar and a perjurer. (Hebrews 11:6..6:13-20)
4) Asking in accordance with His will. Our motives must be godly: we must not seek any gift of God to consume it upon our own lusts (1 John 5:13..James 4:3)
5) Importunity in supplication. There must be a waiting on God and waiting for God, as the husbandman has long patience to wait for the harvest (James 5:7..Luke 18:1-10)
The importance of firmly fixing in mind principles such as these cannot be overstated.
The first lays the basis of all prayer, in our oneness with the great High Priest. The second states a condition of prayer, found in abandonment of sin. The third reminds us of the need of honoring God by faith that He is, and is the Rewarder of the diligent seeker. The fourth reveals the sympathy with God that helps us ask what is for our good and His glory. The last teaches us that, having laid hold of God in prayer, we are to keep hold until His arm is outstretched in blessing.
From- George Mueller of Bristol-and his witness to a prayer-hearing God- 1899 "Authorized Memoir"- Chapter 12.
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I was at work today, St Patrick's Day,when I ran across your blog. If you know anything about the Savannah area, then you know pretty much everything shuts down for miles. (Except our office apparently) It has been a quiet day so I was doing a little blog surfing. As a worship leader, I am constantly amazed at how little I know about worship. I keep expecting the Holy Spirit to just hit me with supernatural knowledge, but apparently worship is experiential. I guess it should be a lifelong experience. I read everything that comes across my path about worship. Some things are tossed aside, others are taken to heart and applied. The greatest writing on worship is the verse from your post. If we could just grasp that. The past few weeks God has been bringing this verse to my mind over and over again. Thanks for your thoughts.
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Allen
It appears Christians sometimes check their minds at the door as they enter into a relationship with Christ. God gave us the ability to think. So should we. Thsnks for the post.
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