Time to repent for my thinking....

The word REPENTANCE means to turn around, change direction or make a U-turn. It is most often used of people who are on a life course of sin and destruction but come to know Jesus Christ and make a U-turn in their life, now headed for heaven. It means that you change your mind about sin, you used to go after sin with everything you had, now you go after God the same way.

I think most of us get that. There has to be a course change, a turn around, when we come to know Jesus and the Most Holy God. His Holiness and Divinity demand that we seek to obey and honor Him with our lives.

But I think that we need to repent where our thinking is concerned as well. We need to fundamentally change the way we think. Some might call this a paradigm shift. A change to your whole way of looking at and understanding the world. The Bible tells us that we are no longer to see with our eyes, but rather to walk in faith. That's a difficult thing to do - who would chose to be blind? Who would see what lies right in front of them and not swerve to miss it?

In Psalm 33 David talks of this shift in thinking, this U-turn in how we live life.

No king succeeds with a big army alone, no warrior wins by brute strength. Horsepower is not the answer; no one gets by on muscle alone. Watch this: God’s eye is on those who respect him, the ones who are looking for his love. He’s ready to come to their rescue in bad times; in lean times he keeps body and soul together. We’re depending on God; he’s everything we need.

What we see with our eyes is not always the true story. We look at an army, bigger, stronger, more firepower and we decide to make peace instead of war. We measure up our opponent and decide if we'll survive the fight. Horsepower (which actually means the number of horses the enemy had - not how big the engine is), muscle... we take it all into consideration. But none of that matters to God. His eye is on those who respect Him, not on those who look the biggest or the strongest.

When we're going with God size doesn't matter. You've only got a few dollars to your name? Jesus fed 5,000 men plus women and children with only two fish! Are you on death's doorstep? Jesus called Lazarus, a guy dead for 4 days back to life! You're church isn't big enough? Your offering box isn't full enough? You're not strong enough, fast enough, smart enough? Doesn't matter. God is.

When you're depending on God, He's everything you need. Not more muscle. Not more smarts. You don't need more money in your pocket, you need to change your mind about who God is and what He's capable of. When You're on God's side, you're on the winning side. Always.