Meat Head part 2
Yesterday I said a meat head was a dummy. And here's why: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God..." (Psalm 14:1). Or, if you take out the italicized words, "The fool hath said in heart, no God." See, a meat head, a Biblical fool, tries to do it on his own. In his own power. He works out of the realm of the flesh, or human effort. That's where we get into trouble so many times: instead of resting in the finshed work of the cross we try to take matters into our own hands. We try to finish the work. And if we're trying to finish the work then we don't know--or believe, or understand--that the work is already finished. We either think in our heart that there IS no God, or we refuse God in our hearts. We think we have to do it ourselves. That's the lie that Adam and Eve swallowed way back in the garden of Eden. The lie that says we have to do in order to be. We don't have to do ANYTHING in order to be who we are. In fact, when we understand who we are... that's where everything we do flows from. The Spirit in us flows out of us when we stop trying to make something happen. See, we ARE filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and everything that entails--the love of God, the grace of God, the righteousness, peace, and joy of God--and when we stop trying to GET all of those things, or "fake it til we make it," then what's in us flows (overflows!) out of us. But it all comes from that relationship. From that heart knoweldge of who God is (our heavenly Father) and who we are (His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased). Jesus said, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing..." (John 6:63). That's why He took away our carnal mind and gave us His mind--the mind of Christ. That's why He fulfilled the Old Covenant--the covenant where mankind was judged by His actions, by the external, by the flesh--and moved us into the New Covenant where our sins and iniquites (our wrong believing and the actions that flowed from that wrong believing) are remembered no more. God didn't want us in a place where our focus was on our actions. He wanted us to be in a place where our focus was on Him. That's why Hebrews says that even though everything IS under our feet... we don't always SEE everything under our feet... BUT we see Jesus. He's all we need to see. On the mount of transfiguration Peter tried to include Moses and Elijah (the Law and the Prophets) but God cut him off and basically said, "Jesus is all you need." That's the difference between being a meat head (and following the carnal mind) and being the Son of God (and being led of the Spirit). That's why the Apostle Paul told us that we have the mind of Christ, but also told us to LET the mind of Christ (that's already in us) BE in us. We have to receive the gift we've been given. We have to enter into the New Covenant. That's where faith comes in. That's where knowing (with head knowledge) becomes believing (with heart knowledge). As a man thinks in his heart, so is. A fool says in his heart, "No God." A Son says in His heart, "Yes, Daddy."