What is the Make Up of Your Mind?

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-- his good, pleasing and perfect will." (Romans 12:2-NIV)

The responsibility to renew my mind is no one's but mine.  The pastor can't do it.  Your spouse can't do it.  And CNN, FOX, Oprah, et. al., just contribute to further "mind pollution."  If my mind is not renewed by the Word of God, my thinking, yea, my life will not be "transformed."  The Greek word is, "metamorfousthe," from which we get the word, "metamorphose," or, "to change completely," and this, my dear Fellow Believer, is the essence of conversion-- "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation."  His mind is undergoing a complete renovation. 

Our biggest problem when we come to Jesus Christ is our thinking process.  It needs "to change completely."  And, make no mistake, it is a life long process!  Many people grew up with one hour of Sunday School and 6 hours a day, five days a week with humanist education.  Then they wonder why they battle with their whole thinking process.  We think and reason with the resources which were given to us and those we have chosen to accept.  How could we ever "approve ...God's will" with the mindset of secular educational systems, the media, and vast majority of the world's politicians?  And religious folk are not exempt.  The arguing, bickering, fighting we see in the church today, reveal minds which just have not been "transformed." 

I will only "approve," or count as acceptable, God's will and purpose for life, His will "in earth as it is in Heaven," to the degree my mind is constantly shaped, formed, and dare I say it?-- controlled by the Word of God.  And, I will only be able to consider the will of our Lord Jesus as "good, pleasing and perfect," even though it opposes my "flesh," to the degree I am familiar with, love, and surrendered to The Logos, The Word, His Mind, incarnate in Jesus Christ and revealed in the Bible.

Father, in Jesus' Name, forgive me every time I just assume my mind is in conformity with Yours.  "I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word."  Amen.
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"Looking Unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2