How To Build The Mind Of God

By David Carley

Why would building the mind of God seem impossible? It is for this very reason God created you so you can become all that He designed you to be. God wants you to think, feel, and act just like Him. Just think about it: if you had God’s mind, you would have no more sin, fear, doubt, hate, sorrow, depression, regrets, vain, and lustful thoug

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Jan 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781640884687

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FOREWORD

This book, as well as my other two books (God’s Love Mystery: The Purpose for Everything and Are Billions in Hell Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?), contain the culmination of spiritual truths that I have learned over the past 70+ years. My spiritual life has been one of constantly gaining new understanding of God’s words and the shedding of vain truths that I thought were from Him. I expect and pray that God will yet reveal to me some of my remaining errors of thinking and beliefs. I will gladly change as God continues to mold by mind and character closer to His. What I do know is that I am closer to a correct understanding of the mind of God than I have ever been. My desire is that I will constantly allow God to mold and shape me by His spiritual words into a more exact likeness of Himself.

Now I know that this is a long book of 374 pages. In it I have placed an in-depth study concerning the various aspects of how to allow God to build his thoughts, feelings, imaginations, and character in you. I realize that some of you may want a shortened version of how to do that. If this is you, then in the following chapters comprising about 140 pages, you will find most of what you need to know (5,6,9,10,11,12,15,19,23,26,29,30, and 31). It is by prayer that you will eventually read the rest of the book and glean more seeds of guidance and encouragement as how to better build the mind of God.

If God has called you to become one of His saints, this book is dedicated to you. In accepting His Son’s sacrifice on the cross, you join in God’s master plan for the soon coming manifestation of His new superhuman race that will assist Him in ruling the earth and heavens for eternity. The finished works of Christ on the cross set the platform on which God now works; which is focused on molding and maturing His supreme creation into the likeness of Christ. This supreme creation is now taking place in the spiritual minds of God’s saints. God’s word succinctly describes this now ongoing creation as, Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ (Phil. 2:5). The operative word here is let. God’s mind is a gift; not to be forced on anyone. To have the mind of Christ, an individual must let God give it to him. Once you let God put His mind in you, then you are a born-again infant in Christ. You then should let God mature you by growing in the grace and knowledge of God as Jesus did (2 Peter 3:18; Luke 2:52). As a new creation, only God can teach and mature you into His likeness. Scripture clearly tells us, Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain (Ps. 127:1). You cannot do it based on your works or your accumulated worldly knowledge. No one has access to the mind of God unless God reveals it to them. As Paul said, For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him? But we [Christians] have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). The scriptures clarify what I have been saying, "Surely you heard of Him [God] and were taught in Him, in keeping with the truth [knowledge] that is in Jesus, to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be renewed in the spirit of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteous-ness and holiness" (Eph. 4:21–24, emphasis added). The Apostle Paul specifically explains how we are to be renewed in the spirit of our minds: "We tear down arguments, and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor. 10:4–5, emphasis added). This book explains in detail how to let God build His love, thoughts, feelings, and actions in you. Who would not want that?

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What the World Needs Now

In order to understand how to build the mind of God, it is im-portant to understand that God is the solution to what you want and need in life. Satan’s prime objective in sabotaging your ability to be-come transformed into thinking the way God does is by cloaking your awareness to the true source which can satisfy all your desires. What is your heart’s desire? I don’t mean like, What do you want for your birthday or Christmas? I mean that which is infused in every cell of your body—your very nature! It is the taproot for all you want in life. What is this driving force in your heart that constantly seeks satisfaction? Many have never pondered that question. Knowing the correct answer is extremely important, for it gives you the key to unlock everything you could possibly want in life. It can enable you to achieve all that your creator designed you to become. Your attempts to satisfy this basic craving explains the motivations for all that you think, say, and do. This desire is so strong that newborn babies have died soon after birth when deprived of it. The power of this craving in your nature remains strong throughout your life and is the determining factor of how happy or sad you are. It is astonishing that most people do not know what their most basic need is. Do you?

Your Nature

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary definition for nature states, The inherent character or basic constitution…of a person or thing. Okay, that sounds good, but what is the inherent character or basic constitu-tion of mankind? The dictionary continues on giving what I think best describes nature when it is defined as a creative and controlling force in the universe and an inner force (such as instinct, appetite, desire) or the sum of such forces in an individual. How interesting! My take on this definition is this: God is the creative and controlling force in the universe. He is what you were created to need in order to find perfect peace and satisfaction. But the question then comes. What exactly is the inner force that drives the needs and desires of the heart of every individual on earth?

Search for Paradise

The paradise Adam and Eve lost is what we are seeking to regain. The purpose for our nature is to drive us to our Creator who is all we really need! The problem is you and I were not born with the knowl-edge of how to achieve this. However, we spend our entire lifetime searching for it. Author Robert Ardrey describes man’s vain attempts to fulfill his needs this way: I feel a restiveness in men. It is a dissat-isfaction of a universal sort…. Its outlets are frequently senseless; its displays lack definition. It is unease unaware, demand undeclared, the hunger of a man who opens the refrigerator door, finds nothing that he really wants, and closing the door goes back to bed.¹ Some noted scholars in our psychological sciences have correctly identified this need. Famed psychiatrist Dr. William Glasser states, No one seriously disputes that in all cultures and in all degrees of civilization men have the same essential needs. It is also generally accepted that needs do not vary with age, sex, or race. A Chinese infant girl has the same needs as a Swedish king.²

What is this void in the heart of mankind that he is continually searching to fill? Dr. Glasser expressed the answer this way, First is the need to love and be loved. In all its forms, ranging from friendship through mother love, family love, and conjugal love, this need drives us to continuous activity in search of satisfaction.³ He reiterates, From birth to old age we need to love and be loved. Throughout our lives, our health and our happiness will depend upon our ability to do so. To either love or to allow ourselves to be loved in not enough; we must do both.⁴ This need is so powerful in all of us that psychologists claim that a lack of love is the cause of all human problems. Dr. Glasser writes, When we cannot satisfy our total need for love, we will with-out fail suffer and react with many familiar psychological symptoms, from mild discomfort through anxiety and depression to complete withdrawal from the world around us.⁵

Other great names in psychologies study of the mind have agreed. Famed psychiatrist Dr. Karl Menninger said, "Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it, life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically.⁶ Dr. Menninger proclaims, if we can love enough…this is the touchstone. This is the key to the entire therapeutic program of the modern psychiatric hospital…Love is the medicine for the sickness of the world.⁷ According to this definition, I’d say the world is very sick indeed and in great need of a great deal of love. Psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin wrote, I now want to boil down the role of love in our lives into a simple observation: Nearly all human personal or emotional success depends upon being able to give and to accept love, and nearly all human personal failure reflects an inability to do so…. Nearly all emotional disorders are disorders of love, and we heal from these disorders to the degree that we learn to give and to accept love.⁸

Love’s Dire Warning

American psychoanalyst and philosopher Erick Fromm gave a dire warning to our world if it eventually fails to fulfill its basic love needs: "This desire for interpersonal fusion [love] is the most power-ful striving in man. It is the most fundamental passion, it is the force which keeps the human race together, the clan, the family, society….

The failure to achieve it means insanity or destruction—self-destruction or destruction of others. Without love humanity could not exist for a day."⁹ Love is indeed what the world needs now. Dr. Fromm adds, If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.¹⁰ Can we extrapolate from this that potentially, man-kind could completely perish from this earth because of his failure to love? That is exactly what the Scriptures predict will happen unless true Love comes to this earth.

Armageddon

Armageddon is fast approaching this earth because of man’s brand of a fake love. Scripture describes the kind of fake love covering the earth today. It is the sure recipe for eventual worldwide destruction of all life on earth: "In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power (2 Tim. 3:1–5, emphasis added). They are lovers of everything, except God who is Love and the only source of all true love!

Indeed, what the world needs to avoid total destruction is the love of God; His special unique kind that only He can give. God is love (1 John 4:16). Jesus Christ is the force that created the universe and He said that at the end of this age, the world would suffer unparalleled stress and trials, so much so that…

in those days there will be tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again. If the Lord [God] had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect [Christians], whom He has chosen, He has shortened them…. However, after thetribulation of those days, ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’ At that time they will see the Son of Man [Jesus] coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And He will send out the angels to gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. (Mark 13:19–20, 24–26, emphasis added)

The armies of the world will not recognize Jesus and will gather to destroy Him at the battle of Armageddon. What the world will view as a hostile alien invasion will be the coming of Christ to prevent mankind from committing worldwide mass suicide. After saving mankind from himself, Christ will set up His righteous Kingdom on earth for the next thousand years to rule and offer mankind His love which is their hearts desire.

The Missing Key

It is interesting to note that the creative and controlling force in the universe that the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary spoke of earlier will, because of God’s great love, intervene and keep mankind from destroying himself. Dr. Breggin correctly recognizes the source of and solution to all of our love needs:

Love and empathy are key to our social nature. Across the psychological, spiritual and political spectrums, many thoughtful people have concluded that love and its expression as empathy are the central principles of living a good and productive life. Historically, the importance of love and empathy had its initial and perhaps still fullest expression in the teaching of Christ: to love God, to love one another, and to follow the Golden Rule—to treat others as we would want them to treat us. (Emphasis added)¹¹

Only Two Kinds of Love

There are two basic kinds of love in this universe. Only one is true love. The other is a fake. This fake love is at best a self-love; the true love is that of God’s love. God’s love is unconditional, and Satan’s love is the conditional fake love. God’s love is based on selfless out-going love and concern for others. Satan’s self-love is the only kind of love available to mankind without God. It says in essence, I love me first and will only love you because you are useful to me. One love is based upon what God is and the other is based on what Satan is. You can call them both love, but only God’s love is real true love and therefore is the only love that can truly satisfy all your desires. This kind of love is impossible without Christ. Christ is the missing key to unlock the love your heart desperately needs and yearns for. What the world needs now is God’s kind of love. Mankind without Christ has no access to God’s kind of love. Although the nature of mankind wants and desperately needs love; without God, he does not know what true love is or how to obtain it. Therefore, man is constantly seeking and searching in all his endeavors to satisfy his unquenchable thirst.

I submit to you that God is the creative and controlling force in the universe and that He put in the heart of every person a natural instinct and craving for what He is, which is love! This desire for God’s love is what the basic nature of man hungers for. It is the driving force in every heart. It is the motivating factor for all your thoughts and activities (be they good or bad). Only God’s Spirit can fill and completely satisfy the love void in your heart. In short, God is love and every man, woman, and child, from the time they are conceived in the womb, needs and desires God’s love and attention throughout their life cycle. The entire history of mankind has, in short, been displayed by our overwhelming desire for the love of God and our continual desperate searching for it. God is the Utopian State for which all peoples, nations, religious, and secular ideologies past and present have striven to find. The rest of this book shows how to receive and satisfy all the desires of your heart, and how to achieve the unbelievably great destiny God desires for you.

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1 . Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative, New York Atheneum, 1966, p. 321

2 . Dr. William Glasser, Reality Therapy, Harper and Row Publishers, 1965, p. 11.

3 . Ibid.

4 . Ibid.

5 . Ibid.

6 . https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ ylt=A2KLfSfQuRJc2DMAMkhXNyoA;_ylu=X-3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcw-MxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=karl+men-ninger+quotes&fr=yfp-t-s accessed 12/13/18.

7 . William R. Parker, Prayer can change your life, Guide-posts, Carmel, New York, p 78; Love Against Hate, by Karl Menninger, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1942

8 . Peter Breggin, MD November 26, 2018 https://www. madinamerica.com/2018/11/disorders-of-love/ accessed 12/17/18.

9 . Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving, First Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 p. 17).

10 . Ibid, pp.123

11 . Peter Breggin, MD November 26, 2018 https://www.ma-dinamerica.com/2018/11/disorders-of-love/ accessed 12/17/18.

How to Build the Mind of God

How to Build the Mind of God

How to Build the Mind of God

How to Build the Mind of God

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Your Divine Potential

Why did God create you to begin with? In short, it was so that He could create His mind in you! Your divine potential is staggering and most likely far beyond anything you have imagined. Scripture says, God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Gen. 1:27). Your body was patterned after that of your Creator, but your mind was not. God has made this clear:

My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, ‘declares the LORD.’ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa. 55:8–9)

The natural man without God thinks only selfish thoughts (Rom. 3:10–11, 1 Cor. 2:14, Gen. 6:5). Let me be clear, there is only one God, and He has revealed He has a form and that form is that of a man. This Man God existed for all eternity prior to the creation of humans in His image. Of all God’s physical creations, only humans were inherently honored by being created to look like God and think thoughts; but not the thoughts of God. Is this because God is saying something about us and Himself that mankind has not understood? Could it be that God is not finished with His creating in you yet? Could it be that the finished work of God with you will be when you have learned to think His thoughts? What will you be and what will you look like then? Man’s God like form and abilities to think, reason, create, and have emotion-al and physical reactions do contain a secret of an unimaginable, joy filled, and beautiful prophetic future for mankind. Let’s next take a look at what you will be and look like, if you allow God to finish His masterful work in you. Then we will launch into exactly to best achieve your divine potential, which is How to Build the Mind of God.

Is God a Ghost?

Some might say, God is a spirit and therefore God has no shape or form. However, the scriptures are full of stories where spirit beings were manifested in this world as physical men (Josh 5:13–15, Gen. 32:24–30). One spirit was manifested to the Witch of Endor which apparently no one else could see (1 Sam. 28:13–20). Only the witch was able to see a man that was not manifested in physical flesh, but some form as a spirit. If a spirit can appear to physical eyes, is it not possible that a spirit could also appear as a man with actual flesh and bone also? The scriptures give both types of these accounts, e.g., 2 Kings 6:15–20, Acts 7:55–56, Luke 24:36–38. Obviously, some spirit beings can be manifested as physical or spiritual bodies to human eyes.

Mankind, born of a woman, all have a natural flesh and bones body. The following clearly says that there is first a natural man with a body and after that he can be given a spiritual body like that of the resurrected Christ. Paul speaks plainly of both the natural and spiri-tual body:

It [mankind] is sown a natural body [Gr. sóma]; it is raised a spiritual body [Gr. Sóma] If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam [Christ] a life-giving spirit. The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man. (1 Cor. 15:44–49, emphasis added)

Christ is that heavenly man now in Heaven. Christ is also de-scribed as the last Adam a life-giving spirit. In Christ’s resurrected spiritual state, He had a spiritual body which could be manifested as a physical body with form and shape. He was able to appear and disappear at will. His heavenly body was not the natural body subject to death that we now have. It was not an ethereal ghostly body without flesh and bones. Christ ate food, walked, talked, and was seen on the earth for forty days. During that time, he met with His disciples who were startled and afraid when He appeared among them thinking He was a ghost. Jesus asked them:

Why are you troubled… and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see—for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have. (Luke 24:38–39)

Christ obviously distinguishes the existence of two types of spirits. One is that which cannot manifest itself with flesh and bones, and one that can as He is able to. Christ’s spiritual resurrected body could be manifested at will with flesh and bones. He looked exactly like Himself prior to His crucifixion. Forty days after His resurrection, it was this same spiritual flesh and bones body that was taken up by clouds into to Heaven. At that event, the angels said to Christ’s disciples, This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven (Acts 1:11b). It is a Christian’s divine destiny to be resurrected or transformed, as the case may be, into a spirit body like the body that Christ has had since His resurrection. Paul said, If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection (Rom. 6:5, KJV). Paul did not say that we are now in the likeness of His resurrection, but he said, "we shall be [in the future] in the likeness of His resurrection. Paul did not say that we’d become in the likeness of His resurrection after we go to heaven. No! He said our new heavenly bodies would be like Christ’s at His resurrection. Here He describes when this will occur for Christians, For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him (1 Cor 15:23–23). Christ’s resurrected glorified body was able to manifest Himself in flesh and bone as Jesus described above. So it is the destiny of every Christian to be able to have a divine glorified body of flesh and bone just like that his elder brother Jesus Christ.

It is quite obvious from scripture that spirit beings such as God and the angels have been able to appear in the physical form of a man; why would they not be able to have shape and form when they wish in the spiritual dimension? The Apostle John said, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made (John 1:1– 3). We know that the Word spoken of by John, was Christ. When Philip asked Christ to show God the Father to him, Jesus said, Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father (John 14:9b). Is it possible that Jesus was referring to not only His mental likeness of His Father, but also to His physical likeness? This is certainly not a salvation issue, but it is an interesting question.

The Scriptures are replete with examples of, not only Christ in His preincarnate form, but also heavenly angels, who have appeared in the form of men (Josh 5:13–15, Gen 32:24–30, Ex. 33:18–21, Ex.34:5–9, Num. 22:31, Judges 13:6–21, Heb. 13:2). Christ’s preincarnate form along with two angels, all appeared as men walking, talking, and eating with Abraham (Gen. 18:1–8). After this event, the two angels contin-ued on walking toward Sodom (Ibid. vs. 22). There are several other depictions in the scriptures of angels looking like men. One angel ap-pears, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire (Rev. 10:1–7).

You take the story of Jesus when He led Peter, James, and John up on top of a high mountain; Matthew tells us, Jesus was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. Suddenly, Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus (Mat. 17:2–3). Jesus, even prior to His resurrection was able to appear in human form and shine as bright as the sun. Mo-ses and Elijah were obviously manifested in human forms talking to Jesus. If spirit beings are able to appear in a physical form to mankind, why would they not be able to have the same forms in the spiritual world? If this is so, then we could conclude God the Father, who is Spirit, if He wished to do so, could manifest Himself in spiritual flesh and bone as a man. Genesis certainly could be used to prove this point when God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness… (Gen. 1:26a). The Us spoken of in this verse is God, the Father, the Word who was Christ, and the Holy Spirit. It suggests that all three were different manifestations of the only one God. They were the first to have the form of a man. Their appearance in this form could have had spiritual flesh and bone. It is from them that humankind was bequeathed their likeness.

Our Glorified State

This information about what our future glorified state as children will be like is extremely important. If we have only but a vague understanding of the true reality of our eternal destiny in the New Heaven and Earth, then our desire for it is diminished. The good news is that we are not going to be some ghostlike figure floating around with wings and strumming a harp staring at the face of God for all eternity; for many (including Christians) this does not sound as fun and exciting as what the world offers now even with its many terrible sinful flaws. Floating on clouds and walking streets of gold would be great I am sure, but it is not all that God has in store for His Children. If we understood the true reality of the New Heaven and Earth to come, we’d be far more excited about it than what has been depicted by most of our religious history. The reality is we will look like we do today; however, we will have a greatly improved body far superior to what we now have. Our eternal bodies will be young, composed of spiritual flesh and bones. We will suffer no more sin, sickness, disease, or death. As we have already seen of God, Jesus, and the angels, we will be able to drink, eat, and have wonderful fulfilling relationships. We will be able to walk and talk with family members and loved ones. We will enjoy a perfect new world, a virtual Garden of Eden, filled with beautiful vegetation, flowers, trees, mountains, and animals that will not hurt anyone. Our coming new bodies and world tomorrow will be far grander and full of far more spender than what any human is now capable of communicating. This we know, what God has in store for His eternal sons and daughters will more than fulfill their grandest needs and desires of today. More on this a bit later.

Man’s Prototype

God’s spiritual form or image obviously was the prototype God used to create man. God made man to look like Him because this was prophetic of God’s future plans to finish His creating by teaching His children to think, feel, and act like Him; to build His mind in them. In my first book, God’s Love Mystery: The purpose for everything, I show the ultimate purpose for mankind (after a period of learning to think and act like God on earth) is to be clothed with an eternal body like that of God. Doesn’t it make sense that as God’s children we will eventually be composed of the same spiritual body like our heavenly Father and Jesus, our elder brother? Don’t get too excited here; none of us as His children will ever be God. There is now, and forever will be, only one God. He will always be our omnipresent supreme ruler, omnipotent, all knowing, and all powerful. Does this fact preclude God from having children that look like Him with a body form like His? I don’t think so! We will never be able to fathom the depths of His knowledge; but we will forever and ever, in the New Heaven and Earth, enjoy exploring the immeasurable depths of His love and wisdom.

Our Present Glory

Above, Paul reveals that becoming immortal children of God is a two-step process. First comes the physical man and next comes the spiritual man. Both are described as men. When I say man or men, I am also including women. Does not the Scriptures say that God cre-ated him [mankind]; male and female He created them (Gen. 1:27)? God here is referring to man being male and female. The main subject of the rest of this book deals with the physical man prior to receiving his spiritual body. This period of time allotted to each Christian is the vital training period God wants each of His children to receive before He gives them their immortal body at Christ’s return. Paul describes this earthly training period this way, "And we [Christians], who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18, emphasis added). This verse clearly states that when we become born-again Christians, we are enabled to study Jesus as if looking at Him in a mirror. Paul describes a continuing process whereby we are being transformed into His [Christ’s] image that we see in a spiritual mirror. In order for this changing to take place, I believe that we are able see as in a mirror the righteousness of Christ in us. Seeing His righteousness will contrast with remaining portions of the unrighteousness residing in the old self." God judiciously exposes these untransformed portions in us when it is best for us in the course of our maturing in His likeness. At the right time, God wants to remove and replace them with Christ’s character. This transformation process takes place over the entire spiritual lifespan of the saint. The object is to be continually putting off sins of the old self and putting on in our new born-again self more of the maturity of Jesus.

I believe that when we seek God, He first of all shows us in His spiritual mirror that we (our new selves) are His righteous children. However, He also shows us aspects of the character of Jesus we are lacking that needs to be built in us. God does not force the saint to mature by looking at Christ’s spiritual mirror; but when the saint chooses to, the transformation process continues, and the saint