Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

     In order to change the course of our lives we must change our thinking, by renewing our mind with God's Word.  We know this, but doing it is the only hindrance we have.  In the days that we are in it is imperative that we keep our minds on our Kingdom.  God is coming for a bride without spot, wrinkle or blemish, so let's stay in the wash.  "The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people's conception of slowness, but he is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient is to hear and listen attentively; to heed or conform to a command or authority) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance.  But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish (pass away) with a thunderous crash, and the [material] elements [of the universe] elements [of the universe] will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.  Since all these things are thus in the process of being dissolved, what kind of person ought each of you to be [in the meanwhile] in consecrated and holy behavior and devout and godly qualities." (II Peter 3: 11-12) This holy behavior or conversation is our lifestyle yielded to the God's Word which reveals to us the character of God.  Doing the Word is obeying which produces holiness.  Romans 2:13; "For merely listening to the law doesn't make us right with God.  It is obeying the law that makes us right in His sight."  Remember it is the 'obedient doer' who is blessed.  "But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [ who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience)." (James 1:25) Holiness is a life of faithfulness and perseverance.  Step by step as we yield to God's Word we are conforming to His image in this  world.  We must grow up and cease to resist and be in contention against the Word.  Otherwise years will pass by in the natural and we will remain spiritually immature, yielding our members to the fleshly minded nature.  We must keep ourselves heavenly minded as we are ambassadors here on earth.  "If then you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.  For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God." (Colossians 3:1-3)  'Set your minds' comes from the thought, 'to exercise the mind', to entertain thoughts or opinions; to be mentally disposed more or less earnestly in a certain direction; to interest oneself and to reign in or curb the feelings and cognitive.  In simple terms we have got to get a new mindset, it is our Father's.  Mindset is a fixed state of mind or the direction in which your thoughts tend to go.  We must train our mind to take us into the heavenlies, by the way we think.  We are in the renewal process from one level of glory to another.  "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." (I John 3:2) 

"Set your mind"

Love,