Meat Head part 1
I heard a pastor friend of mine use this phrase years ago and I absolutely loved it. A meat head is, in the natural, someone who is kind of dumb. A meat head, spiritually speaking, is someone who is using the carnal mind. And that's the trouble we find ourselves in so many times. There is something else available to us--the Kingdom of God--but we find ourselves stuck in the appearance realm of the world. We have our affections on things of the earth and not on things above. The book of Hebrews verses 8 and 9 says it like this, "Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man." All things are under His feet, which means all things are under our feet. As He is, so are we in this world. But we don't SEE all things put under His (and our) feet. We get caught up in things. We lose focus. We get stuck, or distracted. We try to overcome things instead of realizing that Jesus overcame it all and there is nothing left to overcome. We use natural minds and natural eyes. That's the problem. Because what we see is what we be. What we see is what we say, and (as we saw in the last Rant series) what we say, or confess, is what we create, or what manifests. Here's the solution: We see Jesus. Jesus suffered death both for and as every man. When Adam sinned he lost his mind. He left the garden of Eden--the finished work of God--and tried to make something of himself in the world. He was in a dimension of good and evil, of doing in order to be. He was cursed to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. He was under an Old Covenant economy that made perfect sense to the carnal mind. He was a meat head. I'm telling you: Do good and be rewarded, do evil and be punished makes PERFECT sense to the carnal, unregenerated mind. But, as always, there's a more excellent way. And that way--that truth and that life--is Jesus. Is love. That's why Jesus died both for us and as us; so that we could bury the old man. Bury the carnal mind. He emptied us out so that He could fill us with ourselves. In the beginning the creation--you and I--was dark and void and without form. And the best plan we could come up with was to try and fill that void. But as hard as we tried... that's impossible. A God-shaped, love-shaped void can only be filled with the God who is love. The flesh--which is what the carnal mind is all about, trying to do things in our own power--can't get it done. Because it is, "...Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6). The Kingdom is not for meat heads. The Kingdom is for, well, kings. It is for those who embrace, those who receive, the mind of Christ. It is for those who know and believe the finished work of Jesus and know and believe the love of Christ. The Spirit, the mind of Christ, is what makes all things new. It is what allows us to be transformed (into what we have already been transformed into). Jesus said it like this, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing..." (John 6:63)!