When pondering the year and the things which grieve the Holy Spirit, I think we (distress) the Spirit by trying to force standards of performance on ourselves or anyone else. You see, I believe Jesus Christ is the Standard................... not the law, not confessing sins over and over, or any other ritualistic performance/work on our part. Jesus Christ has already met every requirement to keep us in constant fellowship with Himself. That is why He is constantly renewing our minds towards His much Higher Ways, which is, the Much More of Jesus Christ. The battleground is the mind. We need a "New Mind" orientation toward the things of the Spirit, and being dead to sin and alive to Jesus Christ. We need the mind of Christ!
When wedo things that seem to be contrary to who we think that we are (our reality) let us ask God to orient us toward who He says that we are, In Him (His reality). I choose His reality, hopefully in ever-increasing revelation.
To grieve or not to grieve, that is the question?........not to grieve . . . Choose "Life"!
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I heard Beth Moore give a talk once on the importance of the mind. Pretty strong stuff. The mind is often neglected.
ReplyDeleteHey Tripp,
ReplyDeleteNice article! How have you been?
Paul - Teleo Ministries
Hey Paul,
ReplyDeleteI have been great, how about you?
What happenened to the website?
Glad to hear from you.
Tripp
Hey Tripp,
ReplyDeleteActually I'm in the process of getting the website back up...had a move, a computer crash and some other stuff...in the meantime I've got some stuff on teleoministries.blogspot.com.
Hopefully Teleo Ministries will be back online in April
Anyways, just wanted to touch base with you - your website is looking good.
Paul
When wedo things that seem to be contrary to who we think that we are (our reality) let us ask God to orient us toward who He says that we are, In Him (His reality). I choose His reality, hopefully in ever-increasing revelation.
ReplyDeleteTripp, I really like the above statement.....Good post.
When wedo things that seem to be contrary to who we think that we are (our reality) let us ask God to orient us toward who He says that we are, In Him (His reality). I choose His reality, hopefully in ever-increasing revelation.
ReplyDeleteTripp.....I really like the above statement....Good post.