"Your head is in your way"

2 Cor 10:5-6 "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled"

 

Rom 8:6 "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

 

"Your head is in your way" Will that be said of us? From Adam and Eve to Paul, all have to deal with the same problem of wrong thinking. We are not spared. For Paul, it was hard to "kick against the pricks." Are we struggling in the Christian life, with other Christians and with obeying God in witnessing to others? Like Paul, we might just be kicking against the pricks because something is wrong somewhere! Some times it is just good to stop and ask God to show us (by reading His Word honestly) where we have been thinking wrong all these years. We might think that we are accomplishing God's agenda when in fact, we are really not. How much more sad then to live and find out most of our work will all burn up and count for nothing before God? It could be regarding evangelism, lifestyles and priorities and even the way things have been going all our lives. Satan has gotten such a stronghold in our human reasoning that we limit God's work so many times. While we are caught up in our human reasonings and fair speehes, souls around us are perishing and most of all, God's glory is being stolen because His agenda is not being carried out. Are we carrying our own agenda human reasoning, trying to reconcile God's Word to support us? I find myself locked in that many times and excusing it as fine because the rest of the pagan world is doing that as well. How terrible is that! Even in our dealings with other Christians ask yourself, "could I be wrong in this issue because my head is in the way?" If we cannot say that, we are probably suffering from a very chronic sin called PRIDE. Are there contentions among fellow Christians? The Bible clearly says in Proverbs 13:10, "ONLY by pride cometh contention.." Even in reading the Bible, we have to read it from God's perspective and not try to place our own meanings(from our way of thinking) into the passages. Only the Holy Spirit can help tear down all wrong thinking in our lives in light of His Holy Word. But the question is if we are willing to be honest before the Word of God? Only when we let go, then God can take over. Are we willing to admit that our head has been in the way? And say I have been wrong?  John 8:32 says, "The truth shall make you free." Freedom from what? From our unwillingness to admit that we have allowed wrong thinking to get in the way of God carrying out His agenda through us. Freedom for what? To live in unity with all Christians, to know that all our sins have been washed by the blood, to pray confidently expecting an answer and witness boldly to our family, neighbours, fellow workers & all people we come in contact with. Is you head in your way today? Let God set us free from bondage of wrong thinking that hurts not only ourselves, but other Christians and the lost (Rom 8:6)!

 

"Forsake the follish, and live; and go in the way of understanding." Pro 9:10