Renewing Our Minds About God - Don't MISS it

Blog - February 19, 2014

Renewing our Minds Towards God
Notes from Jump Start Prayer Ministry 2/16/14

Perception can be tricky. A person can perceive something to be true that is not true and vis a versa.  This is something that we have recently seen in the media over and over again.  We stereotype, have biases and perceptions of one another that are, for the most part untrue. Many perceptions are made through our stereotypes and biases before we ever meet the person that we've judged and perceived negatively.

I am, for one, a person that has been mis-read and mis-understood, but when people truly get to know my character and see how much I truly care about people and their well-being, they see me differently.  Perhaps we have made some of the same assumptions about God; mis-understanding, mis-interpreting and mis-guided because of our mis-conceptions  regarding His character.  When you haven't fully examined a situation or a person, our perceptions cause us to MISS truth.  The question is; "Do we truly know our Father and do we honestly have a truthful perception and conception of His infinite love for us?"

To perceive means to come to know, aware of and identify through the senses.  Another definition means to recognize, discern, understand and envision.  Most people use the first definition to determine what we think we know about a person. We use our five senses to determine truth.  The truth is, our senses can never be the determining factor of real truth about a person because our senses can lie to us. How many times have we mis-interpreted or mis-understood a person based on our senses later to find that we were wrong? Our senses are here so that we can live and operate in this world because we live in a physical world in a physical body. However, when you are born into the son-ship of a Loving Father, your gauge for truth is His Spirit that is housed in your spirit which imparts truth and wisdom about all things including how He is to be perceived.

We have read about the bloodly Old Testament wars, the judgement, the fire, the floods and the plagues of the Old Covenant. We have discovered the conditionality of the law code; the if you do, then I will do, part of the Law.  We have discovered the ways to be cursed and blessed through the rudiments, and these are the glasses that we use to perceive our Father who never intended for law in the beginning.  His intention was never for us to walk independent of His leading, however, man chose to live apart from Him.  Israel chose a physical king rather the the True King.  God loved man so much that He allowed for us to think independently from Him and to live outside of His perfection, but, if we were to live in such a way, we would have to live the way that fleshly kings dictated.  History shows that the law code was first used outside of Israel to ensure order and control. Without dependence on a true Father and King, laws and rules had to be made.  No one who has ever lived has ever kept all of the law except Jesus Christ who did it as a man by being lead by His Father.  "For all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you." John 15:15b

Our current examples of a good father is grossly lacking even for those who have great father's, so we choose to cast that lacking perception on our Heavenly Father.

God's plan is love, righteousness and reconciliation which is what He performed through Jesus Christ.  His original idea for us was never to live separate, apart or for us to live independently from Him.  He wants to walk with us in the cool of the day.  He wants us to discern and experience His goodness which brings satisfaction, quality and excellence in our lives.

It's important to commit to the mind renewing process because it will change our paradigm which will positively fuel our emotions and our senses which helps us to perceive our Father in such a way that, no matter what's happening in our lives, we know that He is good.  "My plans for you are good.  Never to harm you, but to give you a beautiful and expected end.", says your Daddy.  See also Hebrews 8:6-13.

I pray that you have received a new paradigm and have new glasses on which to perceive your gracious and loving Father.

Our theme for this quarter is "Getting to know who God really is: Renewing your mind".

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In HIM,

Jos

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