Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
It was the greatest miscarriage of justice in all of history: the Son of God came to this earth to save us, He became one of us, He became the second Adam (the first had brought a judicial curse upon us). Instead, Jesus, as the second Adam, brought a judicial blessing and judicial acquittal upon everybody. And yet "we" corporately turned upon Him and hated Him and expelled Him from the world by killing Him.
It was the acting out of the truth in Romans 8:7, which says: "the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be." None of us can proudly say, "If I had been there, I would not have joined in doing that to Him!" Our "carnal mind" is our universal possession. Each one of us needs a "new mind."
Philippians 2 can enlighten us: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" (vs. 5). We can have a new mind if we only consent for it to be given to us! If we want it! We can't pick and choose and end up saying we want only 10 percent of it. We must take the entire gift:
"[He took] the form of a servant" (vs. 7). Not one of the twelve disciples humbled his soul enough to get down on his knees and wash the Savior's feet (John 13). Some one might have been willing to do it--but the humiliation before the crowd was too much for their proud hearts. "His mind" chose to wash the disciples' feet.
Let's keep asking Him to give us that "mind." As surely as a new day has come, we will be confronted with the practical choice in some way to "receive" that "mind." Let's say "Yes!"
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: August 18, 2008.
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