Discernment

My son, preserve sound judgment and discernment,
do not let them out of your sight;

The discerning heart seeks knowledge,
but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.

The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge;
the ears of the wise seek it out.

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,
but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age,
who are coming to nothing.

No, we speak of God's secret wisdom,
a wisdom that has been hidden
and that God destined for our glory before time began.

None of the rulers of this age understood it,
for if they had,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him" --

but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things,
even the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man
except the man's spirit within him?
In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God
except the Spirit of God.

We have not received the spirit of the world
but the Spirit who is from God,
that we may understand what God has freely given us.

This is what we speak,
not in words taught us by human wisdom
but in words taught by the Spirit,
expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

The man without the Spirit
does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness to him,
and he cannot understand them,
because they are spiritually discerned.

The spiritual man makes judgments about all things,
but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:

"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ.

(Proverbs 3:21; 15:14; 18:15; 1 Corinthians 2:6-16;
All scripture taken from New International Version.)

Do YOU have the mind of Christ?


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