Insights

I am married to a brilliant man. I’ve told you before my nickname for him is Mr. Incredible and he truly is!  He has not one but two doctorates and remembers everything he learned studying to be an Eagle Scout as a kid. His mind is sharp and hungry, meaning that he wants to know how and why things work and he always wants to learn something new.  He wants to understand the complexities of God and how the Kingdom works here on earth and how it will work when we get to heaven. That is a tall order!  

I am more of the mindset of Isaiah where he quotes the Lord and says, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts”. (Isaiah 55:9) I don’t understand all the things of God but if God said it, I believe it and that settles it for me!  The balance of where I believe we are supposed to live is found in the middle of Mr. Incredible and me. We will never understand everything about God, which is why He requires faith, but God is clear in His word asking us to “Study to show yourself approved” (2 Timothy 2:15) and “Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, Mind and strength” (Mark 12:30) and “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—Think about such things” (Phillipians 4:8).  

Dr. Caroline Leaf says that we have about 30,000-50,000 thoughts a day.  There is a lot of action taking place in our heads!  We are told in 2 Corinthians 10:5 that, “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we TAKE CAPTIVE EVERY THOUGHT TO MAKE IT OBEDIENT TO CHRIST”. Y’all!!  Those are a lot of thoughts to be captured and renewed to make them subject to Christ.  In The Great Omission, Dallas Willard says, “The love of God, and only the love of God, secures the vision of God, keeps God constantly before our mind”.  So that is how we do it!  The more we study and learn about the Lord, the more time we spend in His word and get to know Him, the more in love we fall with Him and the more our mind will stay fixed on Him.  Do you remember falling in love?  I do!  Mr. Incredible was all I could think about.  Falling in love was an emotional response but it kept my mind focused on the object of my affection. The more time we spent together and I learned about him, the more in love I became and the more my MIND filtered everything through  being in love with Mr. Incredible.  If that can be true for a person, it is even more true of the Lord.  The more we seek Him, the more we find Him, the more we find Him, the more we love Him and our minds stay continuously on Him.  Fix my eyes and mind on you, oh Lord, the author and finisher of my faith! 

Becky Ross
Primary Education Principal
Logos Preparatory Academy