Skip with us to Exodus 19. God had an incredibly close friendship with Moses. Close enough to make other people scared of getting anywhere near it. But take a read of verses 10-13 and you’ll see God inviting all of His people to draw just as close. And skip over to chapter 20:18-21 to see how they responded. Yeah. Not so keen. ‘We’ll talk to you, Moses, but a close relationship with God? That’s a pass from us.’ They backed out, and they missed the chance to get close to the Father and His transforming power. So, for hundreds of years, the closest God’s people got to Him was a curtain and a sacrificial system.
When do we do the same thing? Say you’ve had a great worship time, or you’ve come away from your Bible reading feeling miles better than you did before. But you stop there. You say ‘okay, that’ll tide me over for another month’, instead of pressing in and finding out what God’s inviting you to. And so your mind doesn’t get the full transformation that the Spirit longs to give you. Jesus has given you the same invite that the Father sent out back in Moses’ day, and more. In Ephesians 2, He’s made the way for you to sit with God in heaven. And when you’re sitting with God in heaven, Romans 12:2 tells us, your mind can’t stay the same. You get a new mind from heaven (2 Corinthians 5:16). This isn’t a metaphor, or a nice image. The Father can give you a new mind. But you have to say yes to His invite.
What now?
What situation has God put you in to help your mind be transformed?
