Imitate Jehovah and Jesus in Your Way of Thinking

 "Since Christ suffered in the flesh, you too arm yourselves with the same mental disposition."-1 PETER 4:1.

"YOU must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole strength and with your whole mind." (Luke 10:27) Jesus acknowledged this as the most important command in the Mosaic Law. Notice that our love for Jehovah involves our heart, which includes our desires, feelings, and emotions. It also involves our whole-soulded devotion and our strength-including our energy.  However, loving Jehovah also includes our mind, which includes that we think about matters. Of course, we can never fully understand God's thinking by studying "the mind of Christ" because Jesus perfectly reflects the thinking of his Father. - 1 CORINTHIANS 2:16 and study note "we do have the mind of Christ.

Jesus loved Jehovah with his whole mind. He knew God's will for him and was determined to act in harmony with it, even though doing so would mean suffering for the sake of what was right. Being focused on doing his Father's will, Jesus allowed nothing to distract him from that goal. 

Next time: Imitate Jehovah and Jesus in Your Way of Thinking - Conclusion

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