Renewal of the Mind - the Love of God

I asked the Lord for an encouragement from Him about renewal of the mind.  

What could He say to our hearts that is SO encouraging, that the words themselves are renewing the mind?

And I can hear Him ask some questions: "What is it that every soul truly needs above all? Do they need to hear Me constantly correcting them or conveying some displeasure?  What really does change a person?  Do you know that answer?"

And with those questions, I think about a real answer.  I believe every soul needs to be able to receive the true love of God in such a way that ministers to them, not as an event or just as an experience, but as a genuine renewal of their whole being that is everlasting.  Whether it be knowledge, wisdom, peace, salvation, and understanding, it is all rooted and centered in the Love.  And the Love is God.

Christ died because of Love - He was sent because of Love.  The Word conveys that His Love is intense.  "For His great Love wherewith He loved us..."  Ephesians 2:4

Next question I think about is that the Scriptures do correct us.  But God has already explained this.  What earthly father who LOVES their child, does not correct them?  God has made this clear.  And He does it all for profit to the soul, the entire being.

The next question is what really changes a person?  If someone is sick on earth, what does a person "try" to do?  We all have sought for some substance to make us or them well, some remedy, some routine, something to be well.  This is true whether it is body or mind (soul). 

We can speak of all the reasons for our dysfunctions, but the cure is what we need to speaking of over and over again.   Jesus Christ Himself is the Substance.

Many times believers have "frictions" because they/we cannot sense the Love of Christ - only criticisms, oughts, shoulds, that's not right, this is right, oh you have a spot on your nose, on your life.   The Pharisees did this to Jesus - their religion and law was more important than "seeing" Christ Himself - the Living God in human form.  If they had opened their hearts to Him, He would have poured in their hearts, His very compassion, life, and love.

We will not genuinely love our brother in truth, until we have first known the LOVE ourselves.

In our soul realm, we gathered information all our lives and had experiences, grew up in schools, influences of the world, damage from our sinfulness, you name it.  It is like we had been in a bad car wreck.  We don't condemn people who have experienced car wrecks.  And for some it takes a while to "get over" being all banged up from one.

The same is true for the soulish part of man.  There are degrees of damage.  Degrees of infiltration of the enemy's lies.  And no one on this earth can explain how one person comes out more quickly than another - how one person is transformed "away" from those things more than another.

There is a Balm in Gilead.  If we could put Jesus Christ and the Father in liquid form like a potion, something we could actually put our hands on and KNOW it was Liquid Love, we'd all be drinking and drinking and drinking!

Yet you and I CAN drink all we want - it's just through faith, in the Holy Spirit we are made to drink of Living Waters which is simply God as LOVE.   Ephesians 3

God as Love transforms.  It is Love that purifies, Love that washes, cleanses, nourishes, brings Light to the mind, brings understanding, brings constant hope, power, and LIFE.  NO religion in the world is love.  Only God Himself.  

All must come to Jesus in order to TRULY be saved and renewed.  If they/we do not, then it truly is a "form of godliness, but denying the power."  His Love IS Power.  The Power of YOUR Love, oh God.  Let us ask for a revelation of the Love of God.

 Oh that we would indeed know and believe the LOVE that God has for each one of us.  John the Apostle wrote in I John, "We have known and believed the Love God has for us..."  He also said in the first chapter that they had seen the Lord (when He was on earth) and their hands had actually handled Him.

Paul comes along and says, "We no longer know Him after the flesh...."  He means we all now know Him by the Spirit of the Living God.  And His wonderful Words of Life.

The ministry of the Spirit of God within us is important.  He makes the Lord Jesus Christ REAL to the heart, the mind, the entire being of a person.  He also ministers the Life of God's Word to our hearts - He gets it in there!  And He Himself IS Jesus Christ, the Salvation, the Redeemer.

Oh my, today be with The BELOVED and let us allow HIM to minister the LOVE, the GOD, our Father, our Savior and Lord to our hearts.   This is what every person truly needs, ALWAYS.

Leaning on the Arms of the Beloved Jesus,

Sue Gaither