It's the "Mind of Christ" - seems He is breaking it out everywhere lately in a huge way! So, doing, doing, doing - this is the way so much of the church has been taught that they bring change to a hungry world that needs Jesus. Actually, it's a lie - doing is not the end all be all to all in Christ. Doing may be a wonderful by-product - but it is not actual "Life in Christ". Life in Christ is intimate communion with Him that leads to everything in your life being lived through the lense of His eyes. It's a mind set and lifestyle. Those things can never be things you just do - they are what you are.
So, how does that look? In the bible, God talks about how He will write His law upon the hearts of men and women and they will no longer teach each other to know the Lord - they shall all know Him. This is in both Jeremiah and repeated again in Hebrews.
After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."—Jeremiah 31:33–34
This is what is happening with those seeking to know God Himself. They are finding Him. He is placing His law in their inward parts, written in their hearts so that they are His people - it's an outflow of knowing Him - not having to be taught or teach.
What an amazing time to be alive in the Earth and to KNOW God! So thankful - praying relationship with Him just spreads and grows! Amen.
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Great post! I heard someone say that we are human beings, not human doings.
ReplyDeleteIt is so easy to fall back into the habit of "doing" though isn't it? Church life kind of taught us all to do that and it's tricky to separate what we do from who we are. Am I a minister or do I do ministry? Ha!