The Mind of God

“For ‘who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 2:16 NKJV)

Who are Christians? They could be described in many ways, at least hundreds of them. One that Paul describes in the Epistle to the Corinthians has captured the image of Christians so transcendently in a nutshell. Christians are those who have the mind of Christ, the mind of God.

What a wonderful description that is! We are not left alone here on the earth to defend/advance the gospel at all, while the invisible God of our Lord Jesus Christ is in some remote far way space, just watching over what’s going on here. God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5b NIV) Jesus has promised to His disciples, “…and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20b NKJV)

Our Lord God has never left us alone but is always with us. That’s what the angel Gabriel said to Joseph when he pronounced the birth of Jesus Christ. The angel said, “They shall call His name Immanuel, ‘God with us.’” (Matthew 1:23)

Paul has revealed the long awaited mystery of God which had been hidden from ages and from generations to His saints. That is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

“To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.” (Colossians 1:27-29 NKJV)

That is the hidden secret for life that is excitement and vitality in Christ Jesus. Abraham the patriarch of faith also had received the same promise, the promise of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 3:29). We are given and provided all the resources, every spiritual blessing, in the heavenly realms by the Father and God of our Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:3).

Therefore, we have the mind of God within.