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I want to perceive the way you perceive.

In 1 Corinthians 2: 10-16, Paul says the thoughts and perceptions of Christ and the Holy Spirit search the deep parts of God and relates it to our spirit. It’s a practice we need to embrace as Christians.

However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
    what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
    the things God has prepared for those who love him—

 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 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.

LIstening with intention has become a lost art in our world today. When we become in tuned with God and He dwells within us we receive what God gives us. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and have the mind of Christ. When we are making decisions, thinking about certain things and are open to the Holy Spirit talking to us, we think differently. God brings us encounters over and over; but are we noticing? are we listening? are we in tuned with the Spirit?

There are times when I listen to some of the notes on my piano and know that it is in desperate need of a tuning. Some notes are pitched correctly, but others are too flat or sharp and the unpleasant sound reverberates through the strings. When the tuner works on the piano, his job is to make sure that each note’s sound is combined with other keys to create harmony.

I want to know that God is working in my life, each moment, each note, each key to create beautiful music with Him. Can you hear the sound of His voice? Are you in tune with the Holy Spirit? Do you have the mind of Christ? Listen.