Day 08 - Spirit-Governed Thoughts

Jan 13, 2025

Today's Scripture

“This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.”

—1 Corinthians 2:13-16 (NIV)


Additional Scripture

—Romans 8:5-6 (NIV)


Reflect on the Word

We tend to focus a lot on how we and others act, but do we take time to determine the source of what leads to our actions? Over what parts of us have we ceded control?


In the passage from Romans, we see a contrast of being governed by the carnal mind, the flesh, or being governed by wisdom, the Spirit of God.


One is focused on self, and the other is focused on God. One leads to death; the other leads to life and peace. One rejects that which is true. The other accepts that we need instruction.


Praise be to the Lord that we have been given an undeserved gift that reveals the secrets of heaven through the mind of Christ! We have the greatest Professor the universe has and will ever know.


Prayer + Contemplation

1___ Take a moment to ask the Spirit to evaluate your heart. What do your actions reveal about who is in control? Who is governing your life: you or the Holy Spirit?


2___ Pray that the Spirit will give you the strength and humility to lay down control and surrender to the mind of Christ.


3___ Pray against the division in our world, country and churches. Ask the Spirit for an outpouring of love and wisdom that will guide us into unity

and compassion.