Mon.’s Devo - Put on the Mind of Christ

Read: Is. 19:1-21:17; Gal. 2:1-16; Ps. 59:1-17; Pr. 23:13-14 God declares that Egypt will be judged. They were known for worldly wisdom and their knowledge of science. They were about to be humbled and soon. But the good news is that there will come a day when Egypt will turn to God. The Egyptians will speak the holy Scripture’s language. In that day, the Jew and the Gentile will worship together with one heart. Isaiah was a prophet who acted out his prophecies. God told him to walk about naked and barefooted for three years as a picture of the Egyptians being led as captives by the Assyrians. God showed them what would happen in hopes that they would repent so He could show them mercy. If they didn’t they would know that God was in control when it did happen. In Chapter 21, Babylon stands for the antichrist system in Revelations. As hard as if was for Isaiah to tell the things he was seeing, he was a watchman on the wall. It was his duty to tell what he saw. In Galatians, we learn that there are tares sown with the wheat whose job it is to see our liberty and bring us back into bondage. They are the people who tell us not to be so spiritually minded that we are no earthly good. To be spiritually minded is to have the mind of Christ which is our goal. They tell us that we have to be good and not associate with sinners to please God. Jesus must not have pleased God. He always did good but he also loved to associate with sinners. We were all once sinners. The tares tell us to walk sensibly and not by faith. They are the debbie downers. Lord, help us to walk like the righteous and put on the mind of Christ.