Mente
A mente é campo de batalha espiritual. A Bíblia nos chama a renovar o entendimento, pensar com sabedoria e buscar a mente de Cristo em todas as áreas da vida.
Amar a Deus com a mente
O maior mandamento inclui amar a Deus com toda a mente. A vida intelectual deve ser consagrada ao Senhor.
37 Jesus said to him, " 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind.'
2 Have your minds on the things above and not on the things on the earth.
15 Be strictly careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise.16 Buy up the opportunity, because these are evil days.
3 Through the grace given to me I say to every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought, but to think so as to become wise, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
Sabedoria e discernimento
A sabedoria é melhor que rubis. Quem a encontra, encontra a vida. A mente sábia discerne, planeja e previne erros.
Construir sobre a rocha
Quem ouve as palavras de Jesus e as pratica é como o sábio que edificou sobre a rocha firme e inabalável.
24 "Every one, therefore, who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
13 Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show out of the noble life that he lives his works in wise gentleness.
2 For I determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ \'97 and him crucified.
20 For God's invisible qualities \'97 his everlasting power and deity \'97 are, since the creation of the world, clearly seen, being known from what he has made. So they are without any excuse.