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The Mind of Christ During Difficulties
Facing a trial with the Mind of Christ invites us into a dimension of glory foreign to our knowledge of good and evil. This glimpse into the eternal value of what we are suffering can set us above the landscape with its rocks and thorns. Remember when Satan tempted the suffering Jesus in the wilderness? None of his appeals to the flesh had any power when up against the Mind of Christ. In Christ, The Sum of All Spiritual Things, Watchman Nee describes what it is like to face obstacles with The Mind of Christ: “In 1923 I was invited to preach in a certain city. I took a small…
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How to Hear the Voice of God, A. B. Simpson
“Years ago a friend placed in my hand a little book which became one of the turning points in my life. It was called True Peace, an old medieval message and it had but one thought–that God was waiting in the depth of my waiting to talk with me if I would only get still enough to hear Him. I thought this would be a very easy matter, so I began to get still. But I had no sooner commenced than a perfect pandemonium of voices reached my ears, a thousand clamoring notes from without and within, until I could hear nothing but their noise and din. Some…
