GET OUT OF THE WAY

Romans 12:1-3 (KJV)
“1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”
To look up into the stars and see the great distance between them and us gives me the sense of how small I am compared to their place and ours. To know how fast light travels to reflect them and how fast it takes for me to look upon them is mind boggling; that in itself brings them near as far away as they may be.
Connecting our thoughts to what we see is an incredible gift from God. What we see in understanding is even more incredible. The unmerited grace to see, Master Friend, I thank you from the depths of my heart for this one special gift.
To think without any influence beyond what we see is to receive things as they are. Unfortunately, it has been said, “We see things as we are.” It is human nature for us to frame everything we think according to ourselves. Our self-image, our self-consciousness plays a huge role in the way we see things.
To think soberly is to think empty of self-seeking, it is to think without the influence of self-image and self-consciousness; this is the place where we do not think more highly of ourselves than we should.
This is the mind of Christ, this is how His thought process works: “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me” (John 5:30 JV). Self-seeking is not the Master’s posture and if we are to have the mind of Christ neither should ours.
This is where we must come to for our gifts to carry the anointing. Otherwise, as sincere as it may be, as good as it may be, and as much as it may accomplish, it is just us. Getting ourselves out of the way is not as easy as one may think. The anointing can only fill empty vessels.