"Heart & Mind"
Rom. 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
"act" or "react". When things happen to you, your mind will pull from
what it has been feeding on and address the issue based on what is in
it! You see, it's like your mind is a tool box and whatever tools you
have put into it are the tools you have to work with. Thus, when
circumstances, trials, tribulations, etc. come your way, you have to
use the tools that you have to deal with the crisis. If all you put
into your mind is garbage, then your decision making will suffer
because your mind cannot deal with situations properly. And it will
also cause you to live according to your thoughts instead of living
according to the Word. See, the more God we put into our mind, the
more of him we will have to handle our situations and circumstances
when they arise. Reading the Word and understanding it will begin to
saturate our minds and renew us from the wrong thoughts. And our
thinking will be subject to his Word instead of our own way and we can
effectively give our problems to him.
To truly give it to God, we have to make sure we have allowed him
access to our minds as well as our heart. Many of us only allow him
access to our hearts and therefore, when we talk to him, he feels far
from us. We sometimes try to carry him around as a tool to use when we
need him, while we constantly fill our minds with negative things
via sinful lifestyles, people, places, music, movies, etc. that
showcase immoral things instead of the Spiritual things from God.
Eventually, that takes a toll on us. It begins to out weigh the "God"
in our minds. So, when problems or situations come, our minds "react"
to them based on what we have filled our minds up with! The more evil
in there, the more we react evilly. The more God in there, the more God
can act for us. Sure you may have salvation in your heart, but your
mind can definitely lead you away from the presence of God and you can
be a gospel disaster! How many Christians do you know like that? Come
to church, serve in church, talk about church, but their homes are a
mess! That's because they have accepted Christ in their hearts, but
their minds are not sober. To be sober minded requires you to protect
your mind from corruption so that you do not walk according to worldly
thoughts, but you govern your life by thinking on things above. Sure
it's good to have a clean heart, but for your heart to STAY clean, you
must have a renewed mind.
Suggested Reading: 1Pet. 1:13, Rom. 12:2, Eph. 2:3, Phil. 2:5
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