Discernment

SCRIPTURE: But Jesus, on his side, did not trust himself to them – for he knew them all. He did not need anyone to tell him what people were like: he understood human nature (Jn. 2:24 Phillips)

Incredible as it may sound, we who are spiritual have the very thoughts of Christ! (1 Cor. 2:16 Phillips)

THOUGHT: There is a certain discernment that comes with being mature in your faith. Making more and more room for God, for God-logic, and for trusting God’s word cannot help but separate you further from the ways of the world. It just happens. You begin to understand just how big the reach is that God has made. You begin to trust the world less and God more. You begin to understand human nature more deeply and be less interested in pleasing and less fearful of speaking truth. By God’s grace, discernment makes you more humble rather than the other way around, because having the thoughts of Christ is also having a mind ripe with the fruit of the Spirit.

All this to say tune up your discernment about the competing messages from the world. The voices are sometimes loud and sometimes subtle, but they are all telling you what to think. You have the mind of Christ – invite it! Train it! Pray for more! And don’t entrust (commit in the KJV) your heart and mind to anyone without the Spirit of Christ. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act (Ps. 37:5 ESV).

PRAYER: Grant us discernment, oh God. Without it we are toast…a tasty morsel to be seized by the voracious appetites of the world.