But We Have the Mind of Christ

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All of us from one time or another have had to go with a "gut feeling" on something. That gut feeling is part of how God created us. We have learned to listen to a place within us that goes beyond the ability to know or understand something. It is a deep sense that has a warning voice, so to speak. Whenever I have not gone with my gut feeling I have paid a great price. On the other hand when I have sided with my gut, I narrowly avoided a disaster.

When a person receives Salvation the Holy Spirit makes His abode within their spirit. He is the third Person of the God-head. He is the very life of the Father and the Son who live within that person by virtue of the Holy Spirit.

He gives us a discernment that is far deeper than a gut feeling. He is a very real person, and He gives discernment in every situation to protect us. Paul wrote, "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ."

There must be our part however, the exercising of ourselves in the word of God in order to get His mind on things. Those who do so can honestly say there is always something within them that causes them to "press forward to the things that lie ahead." There is the "upward call in Christ." Something no human theologist, or best of the teacher can give us. No, there is a hunger from what can only come from the upward source. That something is Someone, the beautiful Holy Spirit of the Living God.

Also the Holy Spirit will give discernment in what seems like a hundred different ways throughout our lives. He gives us discernment in false teachers who are wolves in sheep's clothing. He gives us discernment in people that seem like real brothers and sisters, but are dangerous, or evil. For instance, He gives discernment at times when are driving. When we are supposed to turn left instead of right while driving. We obey that stronger and stronger discernment not knowing why. Only later to learn that a horrible accident was averted.

The Holy Spirit mingles with our spirit and prompts us, guides us, warns us, and convicts us. He knows what we cannot know, because He sees what we cannot see. Jesus says, "He will take what is of Mine and shew it to thee." Stay in the word of God, let it fill you up. Never let your eyes depart from it, and as you grow up in Christ, your discernment will be a source of great comfort and safety in the Lord in every situation. "You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail."

"Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.
~ C. H. Spurgeon