Our minds are in the wrong place and they are contacting the wrong things. What we place our minds on brings that reality into our lives. If we place our minds on God, the reality of God comes into our lives. That is why there must be preachers and teachers, because until our minds are informed by the right view of God, we cannot put our minds on God in the right way. The problem is so severe that when Jesus came he essentially said to people, “Forget everything you think you know about God, and I’m going to tell you what he is really like.”*
