MAY THE MIND OF CHRIST, MY SAVIOR

Amazing Grace

Kate B. Wilkinson, 1859–1928

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 2:5)

In the home Christ-likeness is kindness;
In business it is honesty;
Toward the weak it is burden bearing;
Toward the sinner it is evangelism;
Toward ourselves it is self-control;
Toward God it is reverence, love and worship.
— Unknown

Each day our prayer life should include the request that the Holy Spirit reveal the mind of Christ to us. As we mature in the Christian faith, our personalities and characters should take on Christ-like qualities. To have a Christ-like mind, it is vitally important that we nourish our minds daily with quality materials—things “that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, and praiseworthy” (Philippians 4:8).

Kate Wilkinson was a member of the Church of England and actively involved in the Keswick Deeper Life Movement. The hymn first appeared in the Golden Bells Hymnal, published in 1925.

As a suggestion for your devotional times, take the six prayers of this hymn and use one each day to meditate upon as preparation for your worship on the Lord’s Day. What does it mean to have the “mind of Christ,” the “Word of God,” the “peace of God,” the “love of Jesus,” the strength of Jesus, and the beauty of Jesus in your life? How would these Christ-like virtues affect your daily living? How would they influence your worship of God?

May the mind of Christ, my Savior, live in me from day to day, by His love and pow’r controlling all I do and say.

May the Word of God dwell richly in my heart from hour to hour, so that all may see I triumph only thru His pow’r.

May the peace of God, my Father, rule my life in ev’rything that I may be calm to comfort sick and sorrowing.

May the love of Jesus fill me, as the waters fill the sea; Him exalting, self-abasing—this is victory.

May I run the race before me strong and brave to face the foe, looking only unto Jesus as I onward go.

May His beauty rest upon me as I seek the lost to win, and may they forget the channel, seeing only Him.

For Today: 1 Corinthians 15:49; Ephesians 3:17; Philippians 2:1–16

Try to base every action and decision on the response to this question: What is the Christ-like way for handling this situation? Reflect on this hymn—

Osbeck, K. W.

• And as we have born the image of the earthly, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly. 1 Corinthians 15:49
• That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith: Ephesians 3:17
• If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any compassion and mercy. Fulfill my joy, that ye be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, and of one judgment, That nothing be done through contention or vainglory but that in meekness of mind every man esteem others better than himself. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of other men. Let the same mind be in you that was even in Christ Jesus, Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God: But he made himself of no reputation, and took on him the form of a servant, and was made like unto men, and was found in shape as a man. He humbled himself, and became obedient unto the death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God hath also highly exalted him, and given him a name above every name. That at the Name of Jesus should every knee bow, both of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, unto the glory of God the Father, Wherefore my beloved, as ye have always obeyed me, not as in my presence only, but now much more in mind absence, so make an end of your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both the will and the deed, even of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmuring and reasonings, That ye may be blameless, and pure, and the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a naughty and crooked nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world, Holding ofrth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither have labored in vain. Philippians 2:1-16