When people read, study, and memorize Bible verses, this discipline enables us to think in the knowledge of God.
This discipline produces a revolution in our minds as we will, indeed, see with new eyes.
As our minds are opened to receive understanding into the ways of God, instead of the ways of men, we learn more and about God, and less about self. We begin to think as God thinks, and to see the world through the eyes of God. We become one with God instead of one with the world as we are engrafting ourselves to Him instead of as a tree branch attached to the world; for in Christ, we have been broken away from the tree of the world.
Everything that we see in the world today is designed to distract our minds from knowing God, including man's institutions of governments and religions.
This world is a road block, or a stumbling block, to knowing God. This world and all of its many systems are in the way.
The Word of the Lord, however, enables us to see the world as it really is, as we begin to see and know God as He really is.
The Word of the Lord also enables us to look over the wall and know the future. The world, however, wants us to stop, to remain where we are, to know more about the world, and not to know about the future: to live for this day, to live for this moment, then to die without knowing more.
As a distraction to knowing God, the world fills our minds with entertainment: to occupy our minds as it occupies our time.
Entertainment is a variety show with many phases: movies, music, television, sports, politics, and religion. Its players are as actors on stages, performing their bit part---their roles---in order to circumvent our attention from thinking about God, or from thinking about the future. Watch them. Keep your eyes on them. Do not look to the left, nor to the right. Stand up. Sit down. Clap your hands and stomp your feet. They are masters of repeat performances because people keep coming back for more.
Entertainment is not free: it always demands a price. You will either give at the door, or give before you leave. Give and give generously, they will say. So drop some money in a jar, in a hat, in a basket, or in a plate. If you watch via television, you can give online or send a check in the mail. To simplify giving more conveniently, punch some numbers on your iPhone---without ever leaving your seat!
The Word of the Lord is our way of getting to know God. By getting to know God we discover that our kinship is with Him and not with this world: for we are no more than pilgrims passing through this world while on our way to be with Him.
So grab a Bible. Believe it, read it, and memorize as much as possible. In so doing, you will begin to think in the knowledge of God.
Let me know how you are doing.
This discipline produces a revolution in our minds as we will, indeed, see with new eyes.
As our minds are opened to receive understanding into the ways of God, instead of the ways of men, we learn more and about God, and less about self. We begin to think as God thinks, and to see the world through the eyes of God. We become one with God instead of one with the world as we are engrafting ourselves to Him instead of as a tree branch attached to the world; for in Christ, we have been broken away from the tree of the world.
Everything that we see in the world today is designed to distract our minds from knowing God, including man's institutions of governments and religions.
This world is a road block, or a stumbling block, to knowing God. This world and all of its many systems are in the way.
The Word of the Lord, however, enables us to see the world as it really is, as we begin to see and know God as He really is.
The Word of the Lord also enables us to look over the wall and know the future. The world, however, wants us to stop, to remain where we are, to know more about the world, and not to know about the future: to live for this day, to live for this moment, then to die without knowing more.
As a distraction to knowing God, the world fills our minds with entertainment: to occupy our minds as it occupies our time.
Entertainment is a variety show with many phases: movies, music, television, sports, politics, and religion. Its players are as actors on stages, performing their bit part---their roles---in order to circumvent our attention from thinking about God, or from thinking about the future. Watch them. Keep your eyes on them. Do not look to the left, nor to the right. Stand up. Sit down. Clap your hands and stomp your feet. They are masters of repeat performances because people keep coming back for more.
Entertainment is not free: it always demands a price. You will either give at the door, or give before you leave. Give and give generously, they will say. So drop some money in a jar, in a hat, in a basket, or in a plate. If you watch via television, you can give online or send a check in the mail. To simplify giving more conveniently, punch some numbers on your iPhone---without ever leaving your seat!
The Word of the Lord is our way of getting to know God. By getting to know God we discover that our kinship is with Him and not with this world: for we are no more than pilgrims passing through this world while on our way to be with Him.
So grab a Bible. Believe it, read it, and memorize as much as possible. In so doing, you will begin to think in the knowledge of God.
Let me know how you are doing.
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