"The Mind of God"

"From Struggles to Strengths: The Double-Edged Sword of Our Desires"

The Bible offers a powerful message with the words, "My ways are not your ways, and My thoughts are not your thoughts; for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts." God is reminding us that His way of thinking and His actions are far above ours. As long as we are stuck in our lower ways of thinking—rooted in emotion, fear, and ignorance—we cannot become what God originally intended for us to be, which is made in His image and likeness.

God created us to be reflections of Him. When we speak of being created in God’s image and likeness, it’s not just about our physical form, but more importantly, about the mind, the spirit, and the essence. To be like God means to think like God, to act like God. But how can we act like God if our thoughts are low and our actions are driven by the limitations of our emotions? There’s a gulf that exists between God and man, and it is only by raising our consciousness and thinking on a higher level that we can begin to close that gap.

We were created with the capacity to think like God, but too often, we allow ourselves to be controlled by emotions rather than reason. And this is where the enemy has trapped us—keeping us operating on a lower level, driven by desires and feelings rather than knowledge and truth. The difference between God and man is that while man is ruled by emotion, God is the master of reason. God doesn’t make decisions based on feelings. He does things with precision, right and exact, like mathematics. When we do things emotionally, we throw away that precision.

Most of our decisions in life are made from feelings, not knowledge. Children act on feelings, but mature people think on the basis of facts, wisdom, and understanding. But we, as a people, are often led by our emotions, and that’s why we are hurt so much. We allow ourselves to be bound by subjective feelings, which keep us trapped in a cycle of pain. Emotion can blind us, but God, while He has emotion, is not ruled by it. He makes decisions from a place of wisdom and power, and we must learn to do the same.

The scriptures give us many examples of how Jesus, over time, transformed from being simply obedient to God’s will to fully embodying God’s mind. In the beginning, Jesus would say, “Whatsoever the Father bids me to do, that I do.” He was a humble student of the Father, obeying the commands without necessarily understanding the full depth of God’s mind. But as he grew, his relationship with God evolved. He went from simply doing as told to fully understanding the mind of God. Toward the end of his ministry, Jesus spoke boldly, saying, “I am the vine, I am the good shepherd, I am the light of the world.” He no longer just followed; he embodied the will of God so fully that he and God were one. This is the transformation we are called to make.

When Jesus said, “I and My Father are one,” he wasn’t saying that he and God were the same being, but that his mind had aligned with God’s mind so perfectly that there was no separation between his thoughts and God’s thoughts, his will and God’s will. This is the ultimate goal for us—to become so in tune with the Creator that we think like God, act like God, and live according to His will. When we do this, we become gods ourselves. The scripture says, “Ye are all gods, children of the Most High God.” But how can we live as gods when our minds are still shaped by the enemy?

Our enemy has taught us to think small, to act small, and to see ourselves as less than we truly are. For Black people, this has been a particularly devastating part of our history. Our minds have been molded by centuries of oppression, slavery, and colonialism, keeping us mentally enslaved even when the physical chains have been broken. As long as we think like our enemy, we will never rise above him. God’s ways are not our enemy’s ways, and God’s thoughts are not our enemy’s thoughts. To rise, we must break free from the enemy’s mindset and return to the classroom of God, learning how to think and act like the divine beings we were created to be.

This transformation requires humility. Jesus said, “Except you become as a little child, you cannot enter the kingdom of God.” Why would Jesus, who became the embodiment of divine wisdom, tell us to become like children? Because children are open to learning. They are not yet set in their ways, they have no ego blocking their growth. To enter the kingdom of God, we must unlearn the lies that our enemy has planted in our minds and become students of God once again, willing to be molded and taught by the Creator. Only by submitting to God can we begin to grow into the gods we are meant to be.

We cannot bargain with God. We have nothing to negotiate with because the enemy has stripped us of everything valuable. But God, in His infinite mercy, is willing to take even our “worthless selves” and make something powerful out of us. He says, “If you just turn yourself over to Me, I will make you into who you were meant to be.” What were we meant to be? Divine beings, created in His image and likeness. We have a chance, as Black people, to come out from under the enemy and return to God, allowing Him to remake us into our true selves.

But this requires faith and trust. Jesus didn’t always understand God’s plan, but he trusted Him enough to obey. It’s not about fully understanding God’s ways—after all, His ways are higher than ours—but it’s about believing in Him and following His guidance even when we don’t see the full picture. Obedience is the first step toward growing into the mind of God. As we obey, we begin to learn. And as we learn, we grow into the divine beings we are destined to be.

In the scriptures, Paul tells the followers of Jesus to “Let this mind be in you, the same that was in Christ Jesus.” What mind is that? It’s the mind of God. Paul is telling us that we, too, can grow into God’s mind. When you have the mind of God in you, who are you? You become an agent of God, a reflection of His will on earth. When your mind is God’s mind, you think like God, act like God, and live in alignment with God’s will. The earth is then filled with the presence of God, because His spirit is alive in us.

This transformation, however, requires a complete break from the enemy’s mindset. As long as we think like our enemy, we will be stuck in the lower ways of thinking, acting from emotion rather than reason, and making decisions based on feelings rather than facts. The enemy’s goal is to keep us trapped in this lower state, but God’s will is to elevate us. That’s why Jesus said we must become like little children—we have to be willing to let go of what we think we know and submit ourselves to God’s teachings.

We must understand that power comes not from pride, but from full submission to God. The more we submit, the more we align ourselves with God’s will, and the more power we are given to fulfill His purpose on earth. This is how we grow into the mind of God.

Many of us base our relationships and decisions on how we feel about a person, rather than what we know about a person. But living in the world of emotions keeps us from becoming great men and women. Emotions shift from day to day, but God’s truth is eternal and consistent. To live as gods, we must learn to detach from our emotions and make decisions based on the mathematics of life—on knowledge, truth, and the principles God has laid out for us.

When we do this, we grow. We become less emotional and more mathematical, like God. God doesn’t make decisions based on feelings; He looks at the facts, the outcomes, and the truth. That’s why we must grow into a state of maturity where we make decisions based on wisdom, not emotion. When we can do this, we start to elevate ourselves mentally, spiritually, and emotionally, aligning more with God’s ways.

Jesus, when carrying the cross, didn’t get caught up in the emotions of the people spitting on him and mocking him. He stayed focused on his purpose because he trusted that God was with him, even in his darkest moment. And in the end, God’s power was revealed through him. In the same way, we all have crosses to bear. But if we run from our struggles, we will never rise. If we face them, trusting that God is with us, we begin to think like Him and act like Him. This is how we come into our true selves, as divine beings created in His image and likeness.

---