Thinking with Christ removes you from the angst of this world into the peace of God.How do you get there?
It starts with the Bible. Start the day with the Word. Underline a particular passage that Christ is underlining in your thinking. Take that passage with you throughout the day.
As you go from daily activity to daily activity, remind your mind of what you read at the day's start.As soon as you confront a problem, surrender it to Christ. Tell Him that you are giving it to Him. Then picture Him taking it out of your hands.
Leave the solution to your problem with Christ. Think whatever He tells you to do next. If it is nothing, then do nothing.As soon as you come upon a scene for which to be thankful, turn your mind toward gratitude. Express in your heart to Christ your overflowing heart. Don't let that thank scene fade without presenting your thank bouquet to heaven.
Believers do not thank God enough. Thanking God is a gift He has given to us to give to Him. When we follow that gift, we find our lives blessed richly.As you speak with others, note how often Christ interrupts your thoughts. He will tell you not to say something harmful. He will guard you against gossip. He will put His fingers to your mouth, holding your tongue, when saying something out of His will.
When you yield to harmful gossip and complaining, you scar the mind of Christ that He wants to run through your thoughts. Learn how to keep the mind in Christ by pushing aside any focus that is not what Christ would condone.When you finish your day, you will find that you have learned in His school of wisdom how to think like Christ. There will be times when you falter. That is because you are mortal. You have flaws. But you need not have sins.
Close every day with the same Bible you started the day with. Go back to that passage you began with. See how Christ's mind has molded that passage into your daily doings.If Christ guides you to a closing passage for the day, then go to it. Continue the same—marking its primary passages as underlined by Christ.
When you close your day in the Bible, you rest more deeply. When you close your day with the daily angst news, you do not sleep as Christ would have you sleep.Your thinking with Christ is all empowered by the Word of God. That is the key.
Keep at the spiritual exercise of thinking with Christ when awakening the next day. The postulates are very basic. Do not make them complicated.I met a man in the county jail where I was a substance abuse counselor. He faced twenty years for a heinous crime.
His first day in the cell, he dropped to his knees. 'If there is a God, help me. My life is over.' He opened his eyes to find a Bible in the corner. He started to read it.By the time I met him in the jail hallway, he had read that Book three times! That's a lot of reading.
'The more I get into this Book, the more the outside world recedes. I don't care any more about facing twenty years.'I replied: 'That's the power of the Bible. Stay with it and it will never disappoint you.'
Miraculously, he was released from jail the next February, having been incarcerated the previous July. Today he is married to a Christian, living the life in the mind of Christ.
He has learned the mind of Christ living. You can, too.
