"May the Mind of Christ my Savior"

May the mind of Christ, my Savior, Live in me from day to day, By His love and power controlling All I do and say.

May the Word of God dwell richly In my heart from hour to hour, So that all may see I triumph Only through His power.

May the peace of God my Father Rule my life in everything, That I may be calm to comfort Sick and sorrowing.

May the love of Jesus fill me As the waters fill the sea; Him exalting, self abasing,This is victory.

May I run the race before me, Strong and brave to face the foe, Looking only unto Jesus As I onward go.

May His beauty rest upon me, As I seek the lost to win, And may they forget the channel, Seeing only Him.

I requested this song to be sung at Wednesday night church this past week. This song and the word's have been on my mind for a long time. Just read the word's. Even read them as a prayer. I think it is SOOOO very important for our minds to be like Christ centered always. I think it is especially hard in the society we live in. We are surronded by just the brokeness of this world around us and everything in it. Always allowing Christ your Savior to live in you from day to day. When we allow worldy thing's in our lives then we seperate our selves from God. Every small thing that we do, we seperate ourselves from God- wether it is a song we listen to or a movie we watch on television, this is were it starts, the seperation from God. That is why it is so important that we stay Christ filled and Christ centered Always.

Aaron and I were in the car the other day we were having a discusion. I think about one of his employee's. The thing that stuck out the most to me in that conversation was that he said, "Man babe, it is so hard trying to stay right with God when people keep pushing your button's. Aaron is a "nice guy" and he almost always give people the benefit of the doubt. He wants to show his employees that he respects them but while he is doing that he is being taken advantage of because of his "nice guy" quality. I think at this particular moment we were having this conversaton he wanted to be harder on his team for simple thing's they need to be held accountable for but he still wants to have a balance of discipline and grace. I think we all want to first act out of our sinful nature, but if we stay Christ filled ALL THE TIME then that will not be our first response.

Are we allowing Christ our Savior to live in us from day to day on how we speak to people or about other's? Is our speech edifying? Does it build others up instead of tearing them down.

Are we allowing Christ our Savior to live in us from day to day by giving only God the glory in everything we so quickly take credit for?

Are we allwoing God to complety rule our lives? Are we fully trusting on him?

When I run that race, I only want to run it with Jesus, I will press on to finish the race because I see his Grace in my life. I see what mercy he has shown me.

I pray that others I come in contact with will see How everyday I struggle ( For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms -Eph 6:12) Satan is at work for us not to be Christ centered, and strive to allow Christ my Savior to live in me from day to day in how I act, who I give the glory to and what words I use out of my mouth. Only focusing soley on Christ.