FAITH CAPSULE: All should keep in mind not to be a victim of distraction.
Matthew 16
Minding the mind is minding oneself to live life for God.
There is no business before all the creation but to mind the mind to find God.
Finding God is seeking God diligently.
Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
The condition to seek God and find Him is to seek Him diligently with heart and soul, that is, knowing His command in the heart, and live obediently by His command.
One who minds the heart keeps the heart diligently.
Proverbs 4:23 admonishes all, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
Be diligent not to be a victim of the slip of opening the mind to distraction.
Distraction is a route to deny or delay, which can lead to destruction.
All should mind not to be a victim of distraction.
In challenging times, the Israelites confessed to negative evidence of not having faith in God.
Not mind leads to faith-failure.
God responded to the faith-failure through Moses as stated: “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:28-30)
Failure to serve God with the whole heart is evidence of not following Him fully.
As a result of not following God fully, every Israelite who left Egypt above the age of twenty failed to complete their journey to the Promised Land. Are you serving God fully to avoid failure, not to arrive at the promise of God?
Many acclaimed believers, such as prayer intercessors, choir leaders, ushers, Sunday school teachers, and deacons, do not follow Christ fully as the word demands.
Jesus responded to uncommitted believers as stated: “Then Jesus said to His disciples, if anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Matthew 16:24)
Are you a committed believer who keeps their mind by following the word of God?
Is there any way for you to hear it better so that you can understand and know that in serving Him, you must keep your mind for God?
Jesus said, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me: and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, he My Father will honor.” (John 12:26)
Give your ear to hear, to have what it takes to keep your mind.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you against any agent of distraction.