It's Thanksgiving Day and I am just now taking a break from the morning flurry of activity to come visit with the Holy Spirit. In my prayer I was saying repeatedly, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" to focus my thoughts on that specific part of the LORD's prayer because for sure that it key to our lives as believers in Jesus. His will is already being done in heaven, or the dimension/place that is heaven, and as the Body of Christ we need to be praying for His will to be done on this earth. That prayer strains at the brain because how much is not His will on this earth! But regardless, I prayed that then went back to reading in Matthew where I had left off and I came to the passage in Matthew 5:43-48 about loving our enemies. Jesus is telling His listeners about the need to love their enemies and He uses the tax collectors as an example. He is telling them that if they love their fellow Jews (fellow Jews my interpretation) but not the group who in that culture it was just a common thing to despise, the tax collectors (for Rome), then how different were they than the looked-down-upon Gentiles? They were no different. It got me to thinking about what mindsets are readily accepted in our culture that we just go along with and don't really question but are not the mindset God wants us to have. What do we need to change to set us apart from the worldly crowd? I am going to meditate on that.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them
Ephesisn 2:10
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