Koliko puta kršćani citiraju Izaiju 55:8, da se oslobode svojih odgovornosti kao sinovi Božji i da odrastu i postanu poput Isusa Krista i vrše njegova djela? Mnogo puta kažu: “We can never become like Him, because God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts and God’s ways are higher than our ways.” But is that true? In what context did God speak these words? What does the Bible say about God’s thoughts and our thoughts? What are God’s thoughts?
God has given power to become sons of God
Ali koliko god Ga primiše, njima je dao moć da postanu sinovi Božji, even to them that believe on His Name: Koji su rođeni, ne od krvi, ni volje tijela, niti ljudske volje, ali od Boga (Ivan 1:12-13)
Ofcourse God is God and He always remains God and we can never take God’s place, but God has given us power to become His sons in Jesus Christ and to walk as His sons on this earth. rekao je Isus, that we can never be above Him, but that we can become like Him.
The disciple is not above his master, niti sluga iznad svoga gospodara. Učeniku je dovoljno da bude kao njegov učitelj, a sluga kao gospodar njegov (Matej 10:24-25, Luke 6:40)
If Jesus is your Lord and Master, then He has promised you, that you can become like Jesus and walk, just as Jesus walked on this earth as son of God. But you have to look for the things, which are above and not on the earth.
The thoughts of the old man are not God’s thoughts
Jer moje misli nisu vaše misli, niti su tvoji putovi moji putovi, govori Gospodin. Jer kao što su nebesa viša od zemlje, tako su i moji putovi viši od vaših putova, i Moje misli od vaših misli (Izaije 55:8)
Izaije 55:8 refers to the ungodly in verse 7. It was also related to the mercy and goodness of God, to God’s redemptive work, and to the thoughts of the stari tjelesni čovjek, who is spiritually dead and is led by his flesh.
That’s why the carnal mind and carnal thoughts of the old man, which are dominated by the flesh will never become equal to the mind of God, but will always strive against God’s mind, God’s thoughts, i God’s will. Because the flesh and the spirit always strive against each other.
The flesh and the spirit can never become a unity. That’s because evil is present in the flesh and in the unrepented heart of the old carnal man. And we all know that an unrepented heart produces evil thoughts and evil works.
An unrepented heart is selfish, pun ponosa, buntovan, and shall never be able to submit to God, Isus, i Duh Sveti.
And He (Isus) rekao je, That which cometh out of the man, that defiles the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, Preljubi, Blud, ubojstvima, Thefts, pohlepa, pokvarenost, obmana, lascivnost, an evil eye, bogohuljenje, ponos, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man (Ocjena 7:20:23).
The spirit of the fallen man is dead
Ali naravni čovjek ne prima ono što je od Duha Božjega: jer oni su za njega ludost: niti ih može poznavati, jer su duhovno razabrane (1 Korinćanima 2:14)
Zbog činjenice, that the spirit of fallen man is dead, padaš (starac) is not able to receive nor comprehend and understand the things of the Spirit and the Kingdom of God. The spiritual things of the Kingdom of God are foolishness to the fallen man, and that’s why fallen man always rebels against the commandments of God.
U Starom zavjetu, the spiritual things only became understandable, when the Spirit of God came upon man, like for example with the prophets.
The spirit of the new man
But through the perfect otkupiteljsko djelo Isusa Krista, everyone who would believe on Jesus Christ and made Jesus Lord over their lives has been given power to become in Him a new creation; sin Božji. Svatko, who will believe and be kršten u njemu, will die in Him and lay down the flesh of the fallen man (Stari tjelesni čovjek), and the spirit of the new man will be raised in Him from the dead. The spirit cannot be raised from the dead, until the flesh has died.
The baptism with the Holy Spirit doesn’t mean that the Spirit of God will come occasionally upon man, as with the old carnal fallen man.
The Holy Spirit will not come and go, but the Holy Spirit will come and abide in the new man.
The new man is the habitation of the Holy Spirit.
The spirit of the new man has become alive and through the abiding of the Word and the Holy Spirit, the new man is able to get to know God’s will and God’s thoughts and walk according to God’s will and God’s thoughts, baš kao Isus, Who was the Firstborn of the new creation.
By doing God’s will, the new man shall walk as a son of God after God’s will.
God’s thoughts become your thoughts
Ali kako je napisano, Oko nije vidjelo, niti uho čulo, niti su ušle u srce čovjeku, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, da, duboke Božje stvari. For what man knoweth the things of a man, osim duha čovjeka koji je u njemu? even so the things of God knoweth no man, već Duh Božji. Sada smo primili, ne duh svijeta, nego duh koji je od Boga; da bismo mogli spoznati stvari koje nam je besplatno dao Bog (1 Korinćanima 2:9-12)
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ (1 Korinćanima 2:16)
The more time you spend in the Word and abide in Him and be occupied with the things, that are above, where Jesus Christ is seated, the more your mind and your thoughts will be renewed and will become like God’s way of thinking.
You shall get the mind of Christ and shall walk after the volja Božja, which is also the Isusova volja. Samo kroz Riječ, you shall get to know the Father and will God’s thoughts become your thoughts and God’s ways become your ways.
‘Budi sol zemlje’
