{"id":178,"date":"2021-07-26T22:15:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T22:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2021-07-26T22:15:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T22:15:59","slug":"loki-a-strong-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/26\/loki-a-strong-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Loki &#038; a &#8220;strong mind&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201cWhat are you doing?&#8230;Are you trying to enchant me?&#8230;It won\u2019t work.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWhy? Because you\u2019re a magician?!\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cNo, because my mind is too strong!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loki; season 1, episode 3: Lamentis<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched this exchange between Loki and Sylvie and the next day had it brought to mind as I struggled with the familiar feeling of being weak (and I inserted \u201cminded\u201d here) as I looked into the future and felt unsure of my ability to maintain resolve etc. in regards to implementing long-term positive change and realizing positive growth specifically in my marital relationship. It was interesting how on musing upon the thought that perhaps I was in need of a \u201cstronger mind\u201d, the Spirit brought to the forefront of my thoughts the Truth of the matter, He whispered into me: <em>\u201cBut you have the mind of Christ!\u201d<\/em>. I didn\u2019t actually find the exact Scripture the first time I tried looking it up. At first, I went to Philippians 2:5, where Paul is encouraging those in the church in Philippi to, \u201cHave this mind [attitude] among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus&#8230;\u201d. Not exactly what the Spirit had brought to mind but a few days later I looked again and found 1 Corinthians 2:16 which says, \u201c&#8230;But we have the mind of Christ.\u201d But for the second person pronoun added, this was it word for word! Isn\u2019t the Spirit cool?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat are you doing?&#8230;Are you trying to enchant me?&#8230;It won\u2019t work.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cWhy? Because you\u2019re a magician?!\u201d&nbsp; \u201cNo, because my mind&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}