What is the condition of our mind?
Following, 4 of 5 from January 28th, 2024
“Jesus instructs our thoughts and feelings through His Word.”
Deuteronomy 6 by Michael Lockstampfor (@miklocks)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
🗪 How do we use the mind God gave us against him?
🗪 Where are we trusting our gift of emotion more than the Giver?
🗪 How would we describe our “mind diet”? What inputs are we giving our mind?
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
God’s emotions in Scripture (from GotQuestions.org)
📖 Anger – Psalm 7:11; Deuteronomy 9:22; Romans 1:18
📖 Compassion – Psalm 135:14; Judges 2:18; Deuteronomy 32:36
📖 Grief/sadness – Genesis 6:6; Psalm 78:40
📖 Love – 1 John 4:8; John 3:16; Jeremiah 31:3
📖 Hate/disgust – Proverbs 6:16; Psalm 5:5; Psalm 11:5
📖 Jealousy – Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:14; Joshua 24:19
📖 Joy – Zephaniah 3:17; Isaiah 62:5; Jeremiah 32:41
📖 God sets chaos into order (Genesis 1, Romans 11:14-36, John 14:26)
📖 Creative nature is linked with his ordering activity is linked with His relational nature (Genesis 2, Psalm 94:9-11, John 17:17)
📖 Read Deuteronomy 6:4-15
📖 What we learn of God with our mind must be exported to our heart (Deuteronomy 6:6)
📖 We learn most deeply when we make the effort to teach (Deuteronomy 6:7)
📖 We need constant reminders of what we “know” (Deuteronomy 6:8-15)
📖 Scripture instructs us on ways we ought to think about God, ourselves and creation (Romans 12:2-3, 2 Peter 1:5-8)
📖 Scripture instructs us to change the way we feel in certain instances (Matthew 6:25-27, Philippians 4:4-7)
