Pursuit of the Sacred

 When we think of what is sacred, we don't often consider changing our mind to be a sacred thing.  When something is sacred you don't mess with it.  I think that the view of something sacred being solid and unchanging is actually exactly right.  So how can changing our mind on something be sacred?  Specifically, how can "renewing our mind" as written in Romans 12 be sacred?  The process of renewing our mind is a sacred process because it is not "our mind" that is sacred.  It is the truth that is discovered that causes us to change our mind that is sacred, and then our mind adopting that "new to us" truth and reconfiguring our view of the world based on this new truth that is also sacred.    Why?   Because it is an interaction with the living God that impacts a human life.  That is what sacredness is I believe. Coming in contact with something that is beyond what is considered part of our world.   But more than that, t...

 It is a common belief among Christians that we should give God the glory for what he has done.  It is not about glorifying ourselves or showing people how great "we" are.  It should be all about him and drawing all people to Him.   We do work with God though, so we do have a part to play.   The act of our "freewill" either has to give us some credit, or we have to say that we have no freewill.   However, the fact that we have free will is because of God.   It is an interesting topic for sure, and one that can make you go cross-eyed if you think about it too hard. :)    What I am thinking about today though is not about who gets credit for the good things, but how do we handle sin and who gets the blame for that?   The enemy is not the opposite of God.   That would make him far more powerful than he actually is, so we can't exactly flip what we believe on the good side of things to the bad and call it s...