Saying the wrong thing, doing the wrong thing, making that same mistake again, feeling humiliated and shameful—these things can twist my mind into a bad place if I let them. There is nothing the accuser loves more than to accuse. He loves to make the beloved children of God feel small and removed from the light, like him.
Jesus was merciful to sinners. He spoke love and truth to them to straighten them out, so to speak. He pointed to His Father, not to their sin. He invited them into a powerful relationship with Him, one that focuses on God, not their failures. He knew quite well of their failures. He came to bless them anyway.
But we have the mind of Christ.
No longer must I carry the unmanageable burden of sin and defect. No longer will I focus on the accuser’s eyes glaring at me. I turn my mind to Christ and hear the nudges of the Holy Spirit. I am who They say I am. A child of God. Not humiliated but humble in His Holiness. I have received Christ’s perfect work on the cross as my blessing, my grace and no one and no misstep can take it away. He bathes me in assurance. My strength is restored. I am not bent, never bent. I am beautifully His. I walk on, straight and grateful.
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 2:15
Meeting God at the Park 