Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 7 (TMF:583)

Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Peace to Live By: Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 7 (TMF:583) - Daniel Litton
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       Remember Satan used Peter to try to get our Lord to believe that nothing bad would happen to him in Jerusalem, all the while Jesus knew what was to come. And Jesus told Peter, ““Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man” (Mark 8:33, ESV). Peter got a harsh rebuke from our Lord. And we can and do fall into the same trap from time to time. Jesus said here that it is important for us to set our minds on the right things—what God wants us to be thinking about—lest we be used by Satan to accomplish some of Satan’s will. Of course, we have to be in our Bibles daily in order to be cultivating right thoughts in our minds. Satan will also use us to hurt non-Christians, in order to try to keep them from committing their lives to Christ. That’s why God wants us to show gentleness in dealing with them so that they are not too turned off by what we say. I’m not saying we shouldn’t state the truth, even when the truth is hard to bear. But we should not be harsh and unloving toward them, for God loves them and wants them to come back to him.