The Mind of Christ
This morning during my devotional reading, a scripture jumped out at me. I mean it really grabbed my attention. So much so that I paused my reading to look at it and ponder it some more. The scripture was 1 Corinthians 2:16, “for ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.” It was that last phrase that arrested my heart, “ But we have the mind of Christ.” I don’t know if any of you have ever had an attack in your mind – depression, fear, anxiety, confusion – but it’s not pleasant. It plays on your emotions and if allowed to continue will wreak havoc on your physical body and every other aspect of your life. Sometimes you don’t even recognize it as an attack, but your mind is all over the place (so to speak.) You’re plagued by “what ifs” or “if only's”. The mind is a battlefield and if we don’t recognize that, we stand a good chance of losing the fight before we even get started. The Word of God is our weapon;