A Heart For Jesus

  What does it mean that I or we have the mind of Christ? What would it look like to think as Jesus thinks?  My mind is easily distracted. Always rehearsing scenarios that may or may not happen. Rehashing things that are long past. At times overwhelmed with “what if’s”. But what about Jesus? What did He think about? What were His first thoughts in the morning or when He slept at night? Or were His only thoughts on how He could glorify His Father that particular day? How He could fulfill God’s will? Was He always thinking about how He could meet other’s needs?  I found this verse in John 2:24, “But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people.”(NIV) Jesus knows our minds, our hearts. He knows how we think, how fickle we can be. We believe when everything is going great, then let one thing trip us up and we’re questioning His love and care for us. He knows how easily we change our minds or how we can be led astray. But not Jesus. Numbers 23:19 says, “God ...

  ”I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.“  Exodus‬ ‭20‬:‭2‬ ‭ESV‬‬ ‭‭  I have read this verse multiple times, but it hit me differently today. I hadn’t thought about this before, but what is my “Egypt”?Egypt for me, is a place of separation from God. A place of darkness, loneliness and despair. Held captive by the enemies of my mind. “Not good enough”, “don’t measure up”, “not wanted”. The constant need for approval, to fit in, for validation. Doing whatever was necessary to get my needs met yet never feeling fulfilled. A “slave” to my fears and emotions, allowing them to control me instead of me controlling them. As Peter reminds us, “For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.” (2 Peter 2:19, ESV) I suppose that is why it is so important to put 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV) into practice! “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every...