Tuesday September 24th, 2024
« And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you] »
11 No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.
12 And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.
13 When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths.
14 But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.
15 Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others.
16 For, “Who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?” But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.
Many people, in their bid to get to the top and be accepted by others, like to jump on trends which only keep them at the bottom.
- The only people who get to the top are those who do not yield to the pressure to be like everyone else but create a path for others to follow.
These people are always true to themselves.
Many people have lost their personal identity in Christ and the real purpose of God for their lives because they are trying to be like everyone else.
I have listened to many preachers I admire a lot. I admire how they deliver their sermons.
I admire them, I like them, but I don’t copy them.
Rather, I do it the way the Lord has taught me to. While the word is being preached, the sick are getting healed, the barren are made fruitful, captives of the devil are set free and many souls are saved.
I am simply doing what God asked me to and He is helping me.
That is how to get to the top.
« I lift up my eyes toward the mountains— from where will my help come? »
If you want God’s help, then your eyes must be fixed on Him, not what is trending. Jesus said in John 5:19 NKJV
« Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner »
- The individual who wants to be accepted by everybody will not focus on what is important.
Instead, his/her mind will be distracted by people’s perceptions.
In my own field of practice, what is most important is intimacy with God.
People come to me not because they like my face or for the fact that I studied Mathematics. It is because they know that I am close to the Lord and so if they want to hear from Him, I will tell them directly the mind of God.
They are confident that if I ask God for something on their behalf, He would listen.
Several years ago, when many ministers of God were wearing big flowing robes and I continued with my little French suits, people called me names, but I wasn’t bothered.
You cannot be like everybody else and become a role model.
- A role model is someone who others copy, not someone who copies others.
Don’t copy the ways of the world;
copy Christ and the world will come and copy you.
Application – Don’t be afraid to be different from everybody else as long as you are obeying and copying Christ.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Edited by Naomie Joseph
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