How Do You Think About GOD?

How Do You Think About GOD?

How do you think about GOD? With your mind (understanding), with your soul (emotions), with your spirit? The answer should be yes! All three; mind, emotions and spirit; are redeemable and all three are corruptible.  The how we think about GOD determines what we think about GOD.

The first issue is, are we redeemed or corrupted? If we are redeemed we are aided in our thinking by the Spirit of GOD (Holy Spirit) and the Word of GOD (the Bible). Our mind, emotions and spirit have been cleansed from sin (washed in the Blood of the Lamb) and renewed (restored) by Holy Spirit to the purpose that we were formed in our mother’s womb by Father GOD for. If we are not redeemed than we are corrupted and cannot understand GOD or know Him as our Heavenly Father; only as our eternal righteous judge.

So stop expecting your unbelieving family and friends (even if they call themselves Christian) to understand when you are talking about GOD, His eternal Kingdom even hell, they just cannot.

Why? Because they cannot see GOD as the only true GOD; they cannot see Him as the creator of everything that exists and that there is an actual plan and purpose; they cannot believe that GOD is one GOD and triune (Father, Son and Spirit); they cannot believe that GOD knew before creation that mankind would sin and reject Him and need salvation, much less that He had already completed a plan of salvation; they cannot believe that GOD created time, days, etc.; they cannot believe that GOD is Light, Life and Love; they cannot believe that GOD is Truth, Righteousness and Justice; they cannot believe that all things that exist are in Him, by Him and for His pleasure; they cannot believe that Jesus was born of a virgin and lived a sin free life; they cannot believe that Jesus overcame the same temptations they face; they cannot believe that GOD sent His Spirit to live in those who believe in Jesus; they cannot believe that GOD is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, immutable, immortal, invisible, invincible, eternal; they just cannot believe.

They can only believe what their minds which have been corrupted by lies and darkness can comprehend, what they have been taught by society; greed, pride, sexual lust, vanity, rejection (which leads to hate) and abuse (which leads to destructive self esteem). These cause people to do all sorts of evil to themselves and to others.

The inability to know and understand GOD leads to rejecting GOD and His plan of salvation, Jesus Christ. That is why we (every Christian) are called to be light and salt to the world; to lift up Jesus so that people are drawn to Him; to love one another as He loves us and our neighbor (the lost) as we love ourself, to take up our cross and follow Jesus (being conformed to Jesus in  His death and the fellowship of His suffering by the power of His resurrection).

Knowing and understanding GOD means that we know and understand that we are in a spiritual war that takes on physical and emotional battles, but we also know and understand that He has given us His victory and made us His temple (of Holy Spirit) in His Body (the Church); redeeming us, cleansing us and forming us into His Bride to reign with Him over everything (even things that we cannot imagine or comprehend) eternally.

That is why those who knew Him in the flesh could call themselves His bondservants, why they could rejoice in tests, trials and tribulations. That is why we live in greater faith then they, very few people since the First Church have had personal physical encounters with Jesus. We can only know Him personally through His Spirit and His Word; as we yield our will to Jesus as He yielded His will to His Father, as we live in His Word led by His Spirit, keeping His commandments; only then can we know Jesus and the Father in a manner that allows us to have full confidence in Him and His purpose for our life; to take up our cross, to lay down our life (spirit, soul and body), to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, and to fear only Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.