We Have the Mind of Christ

We've been doing daily Bible Study with our kids for years now.  We start off each school day with some hymn singing, Bible reading, and prayer.  We work hard to be as consistent during the weekends.  Not something we are always successful at doing, but we're getting better.  There have been times when I wonder why my Husband and I even bother with it because it seems that more often than not, the words are falling on deaf ears.  Oh, ME of little faith!  I forget Hebrews 4:12.  "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."

The last two weeks, the kids and I have been listening to a series of messages by Dr. David Jeremiah.  He is a wonderful communicator, and the kids get a lot of what he says because he doesn't talk over them.  The series has been on the Basics of the Christian Faith.  Great messages on "What the Bible Says About......Communion, Church Membership, Christian Fellowship, Baptism, Christian Service, Tithing, Spritual Gifts, Evangelism, The Power of God's Word, Prayer, Eternal Security, and Salvation."  Dr. Jeremiah has called it Spiritual Training Camp for Believers.  It's been very good, and sparked a bit of conversation with the kids. 

I can't remember which message we had just listened to, but somehow First Son admitted that when he was baptized when he was seven, after accepting Christ, he said he didn't think that his heart was in the right place.  He said he only accepted Christ because he wanted to be baptized, but during our Bible Study time, he came to realize the error in his decision, and was ready to make it right.  After he said that, I was mentally screaming to myself, "He said that it was during our Bible Study time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"  What a blessing to know that God's Word had not returned null and void as I was afraid it was doing.  God is so good, and today we are rejoicing as he and our Daughter are getting ready to be baptized in a few weeks.

God is so good to confirm all we have been doing.  There have been times when I doubted because we use no Bible Study Curriculum.  Only the Bible.  On homeschool loops, I have participated in many a discussion about what Bible Study materials everyone uses with their kids and I know there are a lot of good ones out there, but I've never been able to shake the thought that relying on JUST the Bible is enough.  And everytime I chime in with that opinion, I am completely ignored.  Don't get me wrong......I don't expect everyone to come along and pat me on the back and chat me up just because I have an opinion, but it has worried me on two counts.  First, I worry that our society relies too much on materials that explain the Bible, rather than relying more on the Holy Spirit to teach us.  The next thing that plagues me is insecurity.  I start wondering if my Husband and I are doing the right thing.  Should we get some sort of material to help us teach the Bible?  But God has been faithful to His Word and taught my Husband, me, and the kids through our time together. 

We read 1 Corinthians 2 this week.  Verses 9-16 say:
However, as it is written:
   "No eye has seen,
      no ear has heard,
   no mind has conceived 
what God has prepared for those who love him" but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
      The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.  The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: 
 "For who has known the mind of the Lord
      that he may instruct him?"  But we have the mind of Christ.

What we gathered from this, is that having the mind of Christ, we are able to be taught the truth of scripture from the Holy Spirit alone, and we are certainly seeing the fruits of that around here.  God is good.