Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Russell Jurgensen
Thursday, April 18, 2024
To get this image of camellia flowers the camera had to face nearly straight up. At this time in April, we are already getting a lot of flowers. Judging by the buds on other plants, a lot more flowers are on the way.
Thinking about looking straight up, I found these Bible verses.
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:14-16
It is kind of amazing that people get so engrossed in chasing some thing or another like money or pleasure that they no longer understand or appreciate the good things that Jesus values for us. Yet it is even more amazing that in the face of worldliness, other people still value the things that come from God. They value things like humbleness, generosity, and mercy among many others.
Should those people who follow the mind of Christ feel like they are missing out if they don’t put money as more important than people? Some would say yes, but fortunately their opinion is not as important as the opinions we get when we look up and keep our eyes on Jesus, which leads to true happiness.