I don’t know about you, but I’m blown away. Just the idea that we can see into the mind of God is crazy. But this passage spells it out clearly. God’s thoughts that are so much higher than ours can now be revealed to us through his Spirit. What an amazing gift.
Yet even more amazing than that is the purpose for God giving us insight into his mind, and that is that we shall be, and even now are, the SONS OF GOD!!
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
(Rom 8:12-17)
God's Spirit joins with our spirit to make us his children and give us eternal life where we will actually be AT ONE WITH GOD:
And I do not pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on Me through their word, that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one, I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Great post, I agree, as you said:
I don’t know about you, but I’m blown away. Just the idea that we can see into the mind of God is crazy. But this passage spells it out clearly. God’s thoughts that are so much higher than ours can now be revealed to us through his Spirit. What an amazing gift.
Yet even more amazing than that is the purpose for God giving us insight into his mind, and that is that we shall be, and even now are, the SONS OF GOD!!
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
(Rom 8:12-17)
God's Spirit joins with our spirit to make us his children and give us eternal life where we will actually be AT ONE WITH GOD:
And I do not pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on Me through their word, that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one, I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me.
(Joh 17:20-23)
https://friendswithgod.substack.com/p/the-genesis-of-being-equal-with-god