“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His
good, pleasing and perfect will”
Romans 12:2
When God told His people: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways” (Isa. 55:8), He was not saying He doesn’t want our ways and thoughts to be like His. God was telling us: “Your thoughts and ways are not like Mine, but I’m trying to get them like Mine.” God wants us to have a mind like His. He told us through the apostle Paul to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. He wants you to know and obey His will—doing what is pleasing and acceptable in His sight (see Romans 12:2). Go back to the old mind in the Garden. That’s the way to think.
What a blessing it is to know that you can wake up tomorrow morning and have God’s thoughts. But too often you wake up and say: “Oh, God. It’s Monday.”
God says: “You’re not thinking like Me. This is a day I made just for you. Come on, let’s go out there and give ’em Heaven.” Give ’em Heaven? Yeah, that’s right. There’s a world out there that is hurting. Let’s go give them Heaven.
But we have the attitude: “Oh God. I can never be like You.”God comes to us and says, “My child, that’s exactly what I want you to do. Have the mind of Christ. Think like Me.” God wants you to adopt His mind and attitude toward yourself. He desires that you think about yourself the way He does. Believe His assessment of your potential.
Believe God’s assessment of your potential.
