If one minds the things of the flesh he cannot have the mind of Christ

If one “mind[s] the things of the flesh” Rom. 8:5 he cannot “have the mind of Christ” 1 Cor. 2:16 because his thought patterns are “far from” Jesus, as are the desires or the “intents of his heart” Mosiah 5:13 Ironically, if the Master is a stranger to us, then we will merely end up serving other masters [see Matt. 6:24 The sovereignty of these other masters is real, even if it sometimes is subtle, for they do call their cadence. Actually, “we are all enlisted” (Hymns, 1985, no. 250), if only in the ranks of the indifferent.
Author: Elder Neal A. Maxwell
Source: “Swallowed Up in the Will of the Father”