THE IMMORTAL MIND (The mind of Christ)
Our true worth or unworthiness lies in our manner of thinking, no matter how seemingly just or unjust we may outwardly appear. In the fortress of the mind alone is peace or
unrest to be found, and in this the immutable law of compensation is made manifest.
The man who possesses all that life has to offer, who seems calm, prosperous, and upon whom fate apparently smiles, may be in a tumult of interior unrest and dissatisfaction. His outer life appears well ordered, while inwardly he is unforgiving, grasping and self-seeking. The apparently unfortunate being, on the contrary, who is generous, honest and disinterested in his thoughts, no matter how great may be his suffering, his privation, his unhappiness, possesses moral strength and clearness of vision, unknown to the prosperous brother; he has interior mental peace which gives content even in suffering. His life is pure at its fountain head which is his world of thought and his clear limpid stream runs through it in acceptance, resignation and the uplifting that comes from perfect harmony between his thought and his actions. INTO SUCH A LIFE THE WHOLE WORLD CAN GAZE.
(L. W D' Lawrence)
Even in the life of such is Christ'.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
(Hebrews 12:2 KJV)
The immortal mind of Christ is such mind which is not self-seeking but self-giving, not self-conscious but selfless; it is the mind which do not set its affection on the things of the world but on the things above,in such mind is found the harmony of mental peace, such life which can endure the roughness and rigidity of sufferings and still maintain a serene state of thought, not picking offence with errors and not fixing blame on offenders rather fixing the offenders. How mush of this portrait have you been able to carve out in your mind as mighty walls of strongholds worthy of emulation and laying up all the other self-seeking tendencies in our corrupted carnal minds? there is therefore a great deal of reformation and transformation of our mind to be done, bringing our will to conformity with the immortal mind of Christ'. Exactly what St. Paul admonished in his letter to the Philippians:
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
(Philippians 2:5KJV)
May God grants us the grace to first recognize our earnest need for this immortal mind of Christ for in such is the utmost purity and holiness of God in whose fortress lies the unlimited power of God and the very nature of God being Invested and on us, sprouting-out in the fragrance of his glory enveloping us even unto the viewing of the world.
Selah!
Our true worth or unworthiness lies in our manner of thinking, no matter how seemingly just or unjust we may outwardly appear. In the fortress of the mind alone is peace or
unrest to be found, and in this the immutable law of compensation is made manifest.
The man who possesses all that life has to offer, who seems calm, prosperous, and upon whom fate apparently smiles, may be in a tumult of interior unrest and dissatisfaction. His outer life appears well ordered, while inwardly he is unforgiving, grasping and self-seeking. The apparently unfortunate being, on the contrary, who is generous, honest and disinterested in his thoughts, no matter how great may be his suffering, his privation, his unhappiness, possesses moral strength and clearness of vision, unknown to the prosperous brother; he has interior mental peace which gives content even in suffering. His life is pure at its fountain head which is his world of thought and his clear limpid stream runs through it in acceptance, resignation and the uplifting that comes from perfect harmony between his thought and his actions. INTO SUCH A LIFE THE WHOLE WORLD CAN GAZE.
(L. W D' Lawrence)
Even in the life of such is Christ'.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
(Hebrews 12:2 KJV)
The immortal mind of Christ is such mind which is not self-seeking but self-giving, not self-conscious but selfless; it is the mind which do not set its affection on the things of the world but on the things above,in such mind is found the harmony of mental peace, such life which can endure the roughness and rigidity of sufferings and still maintain a serene state of thought, not picking offence with errors and not fixing blame on offenders rather fixing the offenders. How mush of this portrait have you been able to carve out in your mind as mighty walls of strongholds worthy of emulation and laying up all the other self-seeking tendencies in our corrupted carnal minds? there is therefore a great deal of reformation and transformation of our mind to be done, bringing our will to conformity with the immortal mind of Christ'. Exactly what St. Paul admonished in his letter to the Philippians:
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
(Philippians 2:5KJV)
May God grants us the grace to first recognize our earnest need for this immortal mind of Christ for in such is the utmost purity and holiness of God in whose fortress lies the unlimited power of God and the very nature of God being Invested and on us, sprouting-out in the fragrance of his glory enveloping us even unto the viewing of the world.
Selah!
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