The Orchestra of the Mind ( A Concerto of Life, Death and Life)

The mind is a wonderful,terrible, exciting place. Anything imagined can be made a driving force of the whole person. Is this good or is it bad? Therein is the age old question," Are we what we think or do we think and become who we are?" What is contained in the mind is an orchestra of ideas and imaginations, brought together in the way we train it to perform. The mind is the place where the instrument of our life song is contained. The heart provides the direction of our concerto and it is determined by the life or death of our Spirit man.

There are many temptations that are sown into the area of the mind, and many voices to try and drown out the true voice of our Father. The arias that are sung may sound beautiful at first until we hear the true voice of our Creator. The mind cannot be slightly altered for the true believer it must be totally transformed. The gifts and abilities must be brought unto the altar of sacrifice and death, and resurrected in the image of the Son. We cannot resurrect life anymore than we can create a new note or chord. We may assemble the notes and arrange them in some fashion, but only our Lord may create a new chord.

If He chooses to create an "H" chord it will be done, but no matter how hard we try to mimic it, we will not be successful in this type of creation. The death and resurrection principle of the life of the new creature in Christ is as old as the story of Abraham and Sarah. This principle states that there can be nothing new unless the Father breathes life into it, our endeavors to mimic this resurrection is futile. We can and must provide the death, but He must provide the life for the full greatness of that life to be revealed.

In order for a person to see the fulfillment of righteousness in their life there must be a physical birth and a spiritual death, then a spiritual resurrection followed by a physical death,  then an eternal liberation of that person to live an eternal existence with the Father and Son. A life that believes also lives out the principles of purity and righteousness, following the behavior that is seemly, to give glory to Him who gave us so great a salvation.

Christ said it best in John 14:15-“If you love Me, keep My commandments." There is no other way to be a disciple of Jesus than to forsake everything upon the altar of death, so that His life may spring forth.

In Luke chapter 14, we read the following from our Lord:
²⁵ Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them, ²⁶ “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. ²⁷ And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. ²⁸ For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— ²⁹ lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, ³⁰ saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’? ³¹ Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³² Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace. ³³ So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple."

 I will leave you with the following from Romans chapter 6, beginning with verse 4:

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
⁵ For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. ⁷ For he who has died has been freed from sin. ⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.