When we check-in to this world, our thoughts and God's thoughts are light years apart. It is our natural inclination to set our mind on earthly things, to have tiny thinking. For thousands of years, such paltry thinking has destroyed the lives of countless paupers and princes alike. A radical solution is needed for this grave problem. We need a renovation of our minds; we need to exchange our presumptuous worldly thoughts for the thoughts of God. A very smart man once wrote - "Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think" (Romans 12:2 NLT). It's no wonder that God's message for humanity starts with repentance, a word which literally means "a change of mind." Doing it right is not so much about trying harder as about thinking differently. What is needed in this troubled world is not more God-thinkers but more God-thinking. When we begin to think like God, we begin to move in harmony with our Creator, much like a married couple of forty or fifty years, who act out their lives as a single entity, always seeming to know what the other is thinking. In such a place with God, there is utter freedom and indescribable peace and joy. There is also now nothing that can truly hurt that soul.
