I had the privilege of speaking at a woman’s conference yesterday. The Focus on Wellness summit yesterday was a delightful gathering of women from different pathways. These women came together to encourage one another in areas of health, fitness, beauty, spiritual growth and surviving diseases such as cancer.

I am currently at the point of completion in my novel. Since this book is a fictional account of a woman’s spiritual battle between God and the devil, I chose to speak on the Helmet of Salvation.

The helmet of salvation is one of the pieces of armor listed in the Armor of God. You can find this battle wear in Ephesians 4:14-18. It is sometimes difficult to decipher the symbolism of the Bible but I would imagine that the helmet of salvation is something which should protect our mind.

Yet the Bible goes further than that. It specifically states in 1 Corinthians 10:5b That we are to make “every thought captive to Christ.”

So how do you do that? I think it we should examine how Christ thought.

The first characteristic I would assign to his thinking is that of humility.

In Philippians 2:6-8 The Bible talks about Christ’s humility, (6)”Who in the very nature, God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;(7) rather he made himself nothing, by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.(8) And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death-even death on a cross.”

Jesus was God incarnate. He could have demanded to be born in a palace or at the very least a castle. Yet, he was born in a stinky, dirty manger among animals.

When he started his ministry at thirty years old, He was constantly giving to others: healing their diseases, feeding them as they listened to Him and even raising a few from the dead. There were times He struggled to get away and the crowds would follow Him because they wanted more of Him.

He kept giving to people who were unable to give back. But it was more than that. These were people who also crucified Him.

I remember reading the publication I receive from The Voice of the Martyrs. In one issue they said the next issue was going to cover what Christians were doing in Sudan to fight the Muslims which were killing them.

I eagerly awaited that issue. It was about time someone started fighting those Muslims. When I read that issue I was surprised at how they fought back. The Christians which were getting murdered by Muslims shared their food with Muslims if they knew the Muslims were hungry. Kindness and generosity was their defense.

I truly think that those Sudanese Christians have the mind of Christ. I may need to work on my line of thinking though. Just saying…