True Mind

Introduction

“Most of us are acutely aware that we live in a world at war. But the war is not over power, land or money, or even good and evil. It is something even more basic. The war is over truth, and the battlefield is the mind of every person.”
Bill Johnson


The ideas contained in this book have helped me overcome issues with anger and addictions. I have also been able to quell the intensity of a mood disorder that has lasted for decades. I now live my life with more vitality and purpose. One of my family members, who has suffered from severe psychotic mental illness, has been completely released from this mental prison in part because of the principles contained in this book. I hope you are benefitted in similar ways.

The Apostle Paul wrote that “we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Cor. 2) We have Christ’s very mind. These words are offered in the present tense because it is already a reality; it is currently true for those who have placed their hearts in the capable hands of the Lord.

This statement is hard to believe, let alone put into practice. For many of us it is more theoretical than practical, more hypothetical than real. Yet if we did believe it and appropriate it, the world would be different. The Spirit of Christ would be represented with such momentum that many of the world’s ills would simply vanish.

Whether we believe this statement or not, there is still a process to manifesting it. Paul offers elsewhere that we are to be “renewed in the spirit of the mind” (Eph. 4) and “transformed by the renewing of the mind” (Rom.12). The truth is that we already have the mind of Christ, it is a present tense reality inside of us, and we are being renewed as our minds meld with Christ’s mind.

I have a significant number of Christian friends. I also have a considerable amount of friends and acquaintances who would categorize themselves as humanists, i.e. agnostics and atheists. Something that concerns me is that I don’t see a lot of difference in these two groups when personal growth is considered. Those of us in God’s church do not appear any more advanced than all of the other inhabitants on the planet.

You would think we would. We have all the tools; we have a tremendous endowment in Christ. He died for us so that we may have a new life. We are a new creation. Even more, we have been regenerated; a spiritual cylinder has been deposited inside of us. We have been given the Spirit as a promise of a full life. This Spirit is truth, he teaches us all things, and leads us into the truth. (John 14 and 15) If this is so then why are we not much different than anyone else? This puzzles me.

I believe our starting position is faulty. We tend to begin with the negative rather than the positive, from the position of stubborn sin and non-holiness rather than completeness and fullness in Christ. We have this mind set of lack and deficiency, as if there is something we are to do or achieve, and then we will eventually arrive at the better place.

As believers in Jesus we already have every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 1) We have everything we need. We have it all. We have everything in heaven and on earth at our disposal to do anything our belief in Christ and the will of the Father will lead us to do.
We aren’t just sinners saved by grace; we’re enlightened beings with a God ordained spiritual disposition and an incredible destiny that is able to blow the socks off any earthbound limitation anyone could conceive of. We are more the cultural iconoclasts than we may realize. We are truly amazing, in him.

We have the mind of Christ. We also have the Spirit to help us arrive at full knowledge of everything we have already been given and to culminate the massive transformation project God intended all along. We have everything we need.

We have True Mind. Divine intelligence, the God-mind, is ours, tucked away conveniently inside our physical container. When we believe this we will progress in the very way God intended.