Genesis 50:20 applies to every area of life.
The church must always show compassion, always.
The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.
The antidote to the lust of the flesh is integrity.
To me, thinking with the mind of Christ means to be thinking in light of eternity, which is what Colossians is all about; and that our lives are hid with Christ in God and that eternity, we're going to spend far more time on the other side of death than this side.
God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.