This morning I want to tell you what needs to happen in your life before you can carry those stones. This morning I want to tell you the secret to being used of and by the Lord. Before we go any further we need to remind ourselves that something wonderful has happened to us. Nancy Ross-Flanigan, writing for the Detroit Free Press, reports that researchers took tissue from parts of the Japanese quail brain thought to control the bird's call and implanted it in the brains of five chicken embryos. The experiment worked.
Researchers say the hatched chicks sounded like quail rather than chickens.
But now the real miracle. God has implanted the mind of Christ in those who, by grace, have accepted His Son as their Savior. Over and over again the Bible's message is that those who believe are in Christ, of Christ, united to Christ, and one with Christ. We have been joined to Christ. If we believe in Jesus we are new creatures, a new creation, with a new mind or a new attitude.