THE PERFECT MIND
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:” Phil. 2:5
The teaching of Jesus, considered and followed to its final
conclusions, brings the mind into contact with the infinite wisdom of the
Eternal God. The deeds of Jesus, correctly appreciated, reveal the activities
of God as to purpose and method. When resurrected, the mind is brought to this
point, fully attained, the Divine intention from the very beginning of
creation, made in His image and likeness.
The Incarnation of Jesus is first a revelation to man of man as to the first Divine intention. It is therefore also a revelation of God, for perfect
man is the image of God. In Jesus there has been revealed to the race God's
purpose for every human being, a mind of royal and loyal love, and the activity
of self-emptying service, as expressive of that loyalty. The greatest
injunction laid upon Christian men by the writers of the New Testament is that
of the apostle, "Have this mind in
you, which was also in Christ Jesus." (Phil 2:5) His mind was the mind wholly actuated by the principle of
love. It was submissive and royally married, submissive to the dominion of love,
reigning in the power of love.
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