Message from Scripture: 3/25/2021

Our message from Scripture today is 1 Cor. 2:16. “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

In the 1990’s, the initials WWJD became popular, meaning what would Jesus do? The phrase was a reminder of a belief in a moral imperative to act in a manner that would demonstrate the love of Jesus through their actions. For a while, it was on wristbands, t-shirts, caps, almost anything one could imagine. While this phrase itself had a noble goal in mind, it turned out most people decided what Jesus would do was what they wanted to do.

Paul expressed this thought about living like Jesus to the church in Philippi, when he told them, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,” or “adopt the same attitude as that of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 2:5). The term mind, or attitude, means to be of one mind, one accord, to think the same thing. When it comes to the spiritual, do we think the same thing, the same way, that our Lord thought regarding living for God?

Since Scripture is inspired by God (2 Tim. 3:16), and is the word concerning Christ (Rom. 10:17), we know what Jesus would do by being immersed in Scripture, by knowing what it says, by storing it up in our hearts (Psa. 119:11), and by putting it into practice in our daily lifestyles (Eph. 5:2). Knowing what Jesus would do isn’t a subjective experience, but a way of life lived with the same mindset Jesus had in doing the will of God. Are we students of the word so we can do this? As Paul points out to the church in Corinth, we do have the mind of Christ, if we know and live by the word. Be imitators of Christ, living by His will, revealed in His word. It’s life changing, now and eternally. God bless.

Robert