Complete in Christ

The more you know God the more you will understand his thoughts. The Word says that we have the mind of Christ to be able to walk in the Christian life. Not for ourselves, but depending on Him. The Holy Spirit puts us in tune with his thoughts, we understand his purposes, we conceive that his will is good for his children. His ways are not our ways, but we can understand that in his sovereignty, he has drawn a map for us so that there are no losses, because in his goodness and love he has arranged all things so that things go well for us, even when we do not understand certain situations. and difficult circumstances that we will have to face. Christ never told us that the path would be cleared of thorns and tares, rather that it is narrow and difficult.

We need to abort from our minds everything that is contrary to this reality. The mind of Christ imparts divine wisdom to us, leads us down safe paths, and essentially enables us to understand the truth of things. If we say that we are spiritual it is because we walk according to the Spirit. The Spirit reminds us at every moment that we must face life being aware that we live with the mind of the Lord. Only sometimes we ignore it.

We are children of God, but we are vulnerable. When we stop focusing on the information that comes from God, the world traps us in its nets of misery. The information that comes from the world totally denies the precepts of God, blurs us from the essential, makes us see God as the casual provider, the "little tablet" of salvation only for moments of difficulty and weakness of our faith. But when we live focused on Christ - in the thoughts that come from his mind - we will feel accepted, without feelings of guilt, there will be no room for depression and stress and we will feel that we can truly live an abundant life. It is very difficult to hear the voice of God when the mind of the Christian is focused on the subtleties and proposals that the world constantly does not tire of making us.

The Word says: "We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that proceeds from God, so that we may understand what by his grace he has granted us" (1Cor 2:10)

We are spiritual beings and God has given us the power to understand his will through his Spirit. That is our great privilege. The spiritual mind allows us to discern the holiness of God, the beauty of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, the meaning of Salvation; enables us to bear fruit that glorifies God. The natural man cannot understand this because he does not have the mind of Christ.

We have to learn to discern between the mind of Christ and the mind of the world. We live in a constant and permanent attack from the world and we perceive this through the senses. We are often tempted to pay attention to the world because it is easier to believe what we hear, what we see, what we feel, than what the Spirit of God tells us. It is spiritual warfare and we have the unmatched armor to win it: the mind of Christ, revealed through his Spirit. The mind of Christ is faith, it is the wisdom that comes from the very essence of God. It is the confidence that He Himself will fight our battles. To that wisdom every Christian should aspire. God does not expect us to face the world with our own abilities and strategies, since it would be a behavior according to the flesh, rather He tells us that our capacity comes from Him, therefore we must depend on Him, focused only on Him.

The Lord reminds us: “Do not conform to today's world, but be transformed by renewing your mind. In this way they will be able to verify what the will of God is, good, agreeable and perfect ”(Romans 12: 2)

So things; we have the power of the Spirit, the Word of truth and last but not least, the Lord's own mind. We are complete in Christ!

God bless you!