Jan 15, 2019
I was thinking about 1 Peter 1:23 “for you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.” I looked back and this is the 3rd time I’ve used this verse. This is the cultivation process. Where with repetition of the truth, it has the opportunity to penetrate into different thoughts, ideas, and beliefs. It causes you to understand, see things from a different, better, more accurate perspective. This is how you become transformed by the renewing of your mind. This is the pruning process Jesus talked about in John 15.
Part of changing the way you think, and not holding a thought about yourself that God doesn’t think, is by learning what God does actually think. What he has said is what he thinks. God is not a man that he should lie or change his mind. You have been born again, “through the living and enduring word of God”. There is stored up for you a hope and salvation “that will never perish, spoil or fade”. The things of God are absolute, so they are trustworthy. So when you “feel” different then what God has said, you don’t base your thoughts and actions off your feelings but on the living and enduring word of God. This concept of the things of this world that perish but the things of God that don’t keeps standing out to me. Our feelings can be things that perish, they definitely seem to spoil given the right environment. And sometimes we wish they would fade!
But you, my good people are predestined to be conformed to the image of the son. Which means you have the ability to think thoughts, have feelings, and take actions that reflect and are powered from the glory of God. We train our feelings but what we think. We train our thinking by what we intentionally cultivate. And we take action based on what we think and how we feel. That is why “All Day I Keep It Cultivated”!
My good Peoples, peace be yours in absolute abundance!