The church at Corinth had a lot of behavioral issues. They were not acting right towards one other, those outside the church, or toward Christ Himself. But early on, Paul reminded them that the root of their ills was deeper, it was in the way they thought, which led to these actions. In the second chapter of his first letter he said:
14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
In this comparison/contrast, Paul says as followers of Christ, we have available to us something that those outside of the faith do not have. We have the mind of Christ. We have the ability to see things from God's perspective. What before made no sense, now makes perfect sense. Questions like: "Why would these people deprive themselves of whatever they desire? Why do they devote themselves to gatherings often to worship their God? Why do they give of what they have so freely?" When we have the mind of Christ, and our minds are renewed to process life with God's wisdom in mind, we make wise choices we never would have made before. What does God need to change in my mind today?
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