Our Rapidly Approaching Date with Heavenly Mindedness...

[Gideon]

Give it some thought just for a second. In the eons of eternity both past and future, if we look closely, there will be one microdot, a blip, an anomaly so to speak. What is it? It is this world.....time..... our lives. It could be 70 years, 7,000 years or 70 million. No matter. A blip compared to eternity. 

If we take God's perspective, we cannot help but see things quite differently then we are accustomed to. He sees this world as temporal, for it is just that.... temporary. And in relation to the eternal, this life is not really “real”, and is important to us for but one real reason. A question must be answered by us.

Where do we want to spend our eternity? In total goodness, with the Lord, or in total darkness with Satan? 

That is our valley of decision. Life in truth is simply a dressing room for our hearts, and there we choose which garment we will wear for the eons upon eons still to come. Light..... or darkness. Purity or sin. Complete righteousness or total evil. The separation will be clean. Full. Complete. And we are all being asked in these last days to come deeper to one side or the other. Our choice is still before us. 

What I share here, the truths of the new nature, of God actually indwelling us and making sure we do not stray, changing us from inside out, all are true.... and we could see that clearly IF we were eternity minded… and  had the mind of Christ. 

Guess what? We are told that we possess that very thing! We are urged to set our affections on things above, not on things of the earth. And if each of us sat down with God in complete  transparency, how would we rate ourselves in our pursuit of this  treasure? For that matter, where IS our treasure? Is what we truly value, think about, dream about, set our affections upon… is it this earth.... OUR life.... our hopes, dreams, plans…. or His?

Are we thinking about what God tells us is but a vapor...temporal....earthly, or have we been changed, had our minds renewed, and now we operate from a heavenly perspective where all that truly matters is how things in this life affect eternity.

I heard someone say once in describing a zealous brother in the Lord...

"He's so heavenly minded, he is no earthly good."

Yet in God's perspective, far more common are the ones who are so earthy minded, they are no heavenly good. How many in the body who still dwell in the perspective of THIS life, who still live as if they are their own. Guys, we are not. We have been bought, rescued out of the hand of our previous owner. There is a transaction to our salvation. We offer up all our pearls. Not most. Not the bad ones. ALL. We hate our life. He gives us His. It is a deal of a lifetime. 

But it is right here that we begin to get off the tracks. This is where I believe the error is birthed that has caused us to be blind to the second half of our new covenant. And what is that missing half, so clearly promised in Ezekiel 36? It is that after we are forgiven, God then will actually transform us, deliver us from evil, set us free indeed, and make us overcomers. It is a big deal, HUGE for that matter, and God is opening our eyes to the truth of the blessing awaiting us.... IF we will but fully surrender to Him… and tell Him we WANT that! 

When we were saved, no one told us God expected full surrender, but do we not get it? He does so in order to bless us with something far, far better.... overcoming, overflowing LIFE. Joy. Abundant life. We are surrendering our old fleshly natures in exchange for new ones! And it is because of this error in our understanding, and our lack of complete unequivocal surrender, that the road is blocked to our walking in our new man, overcoming the world, the flesh, and the devil. And as a result, we have been robbed of the joy of abiding in Him and indeed being caused to obey Him, and being made fruitful vines.

But praise God forever. That time of our spiritual sleep is coming to a close. We are even now being awakened, and when we finally see what we get back in return once we fully center ourselves on the wheel of the master potter, the fear that we have of absolute surrender will melt like summer snow, and the temporal things we so cling onto now, will give way to things above. Even as we continue to dwell in fleshly bodies, our spirits will no more be fleshly. Our black dog/ white dog fight will have ended by our declaring our black dog as dead, simply because we believe our God.

It is at that moment we will have fully morphed from earthly minded saints to heavenly minded ones. Our minds will be renewed just as He promised. We will finally be so heavenly minded that we ARE earthly good. Praise God forevermore. We serve an amazing God.

Listen! We are not destined to go out known for our lack of love and lack of prayer and lack of a burden for souls. The bride of Christ not be characterized by 90 minute services and shallow commitment. We will not go out laden with secret sins, resentment, unforgiveness, worldliness, sexual lusts all wrapped around our hearts, keeping our life set on lukewarm.

No, no. God has something better in mind for us. We are about to experience the glory of being made heavenly minded. It will change EVERYTHING. Incredible, not even dreamed of days are ahead of us. Are you ready?  

Many blessings,

Gideon

[Dan_79]

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a]

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

18 “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 19 When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. 20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. 23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

[Not me]

As John the Basipst said;

“That He might increase and that I might decrease.”

“To be found in Him not having a righteousness of my own, which come through the law, (that which I can do) but a righteousness that comes through faith in Christ Jesus.” 

All of Him and nothing of me. 

Much love in Christ, Not me

ps, you got to get the book(s) 

Spirit of Love/Spirit of Prayer, by William Law.

You’ll get such a kick out of how he opens it. He wrote it back in the 17th century. (Great minds think alike.) 

Edited May 4, 2018 by Not me