KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:
If you fall into the “me-oh-my” trap of thinking your life is filled with problems that others cannot understand, you’ve essentially cut yourself off from one of the greatest blessings in your life – others!
So much of our temporal deliverance is tied to our perspective of the future.
“set your minds” – from phroneo – means:
- to exercise the mind, i.e. entertain or have a sentiment or opinion
- (by implication) to be (mentally) disposed (more or less earnestly in a certain direction)
- (intensively) to interest oneself in (with concern or obedience)
In other words, it means that your actions are directed by your inner self (what you earnestly believe in).
William L. Lane on Heb 13:18-19
All self-confidence is radically excluded from such boasting. What is prominent is the element of trust: it is a boasting of trust in God. This trust is a presupposition of shared community life. In the case of the leaders, it proceeds from their sense of ultimate accountability to God (v 17).
My confidence comes from the Word. I am fully aware of my weaknesses, and I know that the closer you get to me, the more you will become aware of them. But I do not preach on the merits of Ed Collins, I preach on the merits of God’s Word, and I do so on the authority that God has granted me. While I may need to apologize for my own failures to you from time to time, I will never apologize for representing the Truth.