Rubik's Cube

Rubik’s cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor Erno Rubik. Although it is widely reported that the Cube was built as a teaching tool to help his students understand 3D objects, his actual purpose was solving the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart.

As a professor of architecture, Erno Rubik invented the little toy for his purpose of teaching and it ended up going all over the world and has sold over 350 million.

In the scriptures David spoke to his son saying “And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever” (1 Chronicles 28:9)

Reading this verse what stuck out was the words “willing mind.” What does it take to have a willing mind and wholehearted devotion? It is a committed choice that our focus with our mind will be on the Father. I was trying to compare that to something and the thing that came to my mind is a Rubik’s cube and how in order to complete the puzzle and get all the colors in order one needs to focus. Think about it, when you do any sort of mind puzzle you focus 100% taking all the distractions of life out of your mind and put it on the puzzle.

David was commissioning Solomon to build the Lord’s temple. He was saying what God says to each of us that the work He has for each our lives will take a willing mind and then he asks us are you cooperating with Him?

If your mind is thinking negative thoughts about your day or circumstances, what do you choose to with those thoughts? Do you just continue to think them or do you choose to focus on God and invite him into the situation. By praying prayers of thanksgiving, rejoicing, praising and petitions you allow God to renew your mind and this is your spiritual act of worship. With this kind of intentional focus on God you will experience freedom from thoughts and eventually the right timing for solutions to circumstances.

Rubik’s cube can give you temporary relief from your thoughts but God can give you everlasting relief of peace to be able to renew your mind.

Let’s Pray: Today I praise you and thank you for….. and I need help with….. I choose to focus on you and give these thoughts to you. Thank you for peace, I wait on you. In Jesus name.

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. (Romans 12:1-2 MSG)