I decided for the main theme of my plan to draw closer to God I wanted on focus on gaining and remaining in the mind of Christ as defined in 1 Corinthians 2
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
16"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"But we have the mind of Christ.
In these verses Paul is talking about how the spirit of man is the only one to know the thoughts of the man and how the spirit of God is the only one who knows the thoughts of God. If it stopped here that would be a pretty depressing statement but he goes on to say that God has given us his spirit in order that we may discern his will for our lives. And How did we gain this spirit? Through Christ who died in place of us so that the connection between God and man would be repaired. He has known the mind of the Lord and now we have it!
When I say I want to gain the mind of Christ heres what I mean: I want to be so filled with the spirit of the Lord that I am always thinking about Christ in relation to everything. Asking “would Jesus approve of me doing this?” “can I use a particular situation to benefit the kingdom” etc.. Even if it means simply maintaining a good attitude when situations are less then ideal, setting a good example, or doing little things to serve others. I want my faith to be so grounded in my life that it is the base on which all my other views build and from which they cannot be separated. The foundation of all my decisions and the final say in all I do
Anyway thats the theme anyway I'll be building off of that as time progresses.
