With All Our Mind

 

With all our mind

Necessitates we have a change of heart

For how else from our carnal desires

Can we draw ourselves apart?

 

With soul and heart and mind:

This is the command

That is given to the born-again believer

Already living by God’s plan.

 

It is not for the unregenerate

Who are not yet saved

Neither for the goody-two-shoes

By the vain way they behave.

 

It is only the born again

That seeks to know God’s way,

This is the endeavor of a renewed mind

Over which God holds sway.

 

The heathen does not seek God

But wants the things God gives:

Like peace and joy and purpose

And the good life they live.

 

“The seeking after God

Is no business of the heathen

But the seeking after God

Is the business of the Christian.”

 

The preceding quotation

Is not a product of my mind

But I find it extremely appropriate

To reference at this time.

 

It defines the stark difference

Between the pagan and the Christian

It is a matter of the mind:

Like Christianity and religion.

 

Christ’s righteousness and man’s

Yes, another stark contrast,

One is counterfeit and superficial

The other is destined to last.

 

Romans 12:2

 

And be not conformed to this world:

but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,

that ye may prove what is that good,

and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

 

The unregenerate mind

Can never be in tuned with God

But is turned in enmity against Him

And is manipulated by King Fraud.

 

The devil is doing his worse

To destroy and to deceive

And he targets and attack our mind

To challenge what we believe.

 

But the injunction is:

Love God with all of our mind,

This is to the born-again believer

Both now and for all of time.

 

Philippians 2:5

 

Let this mind be in you,

which was also in Christ Jesus

 

With this mind, seek after God

With this mind, Him adore,

With this mind, Him alone worship

And grow and go and glow!

 

Stewart Russell © January 17, 2022