THE RENEWAL OF YOUR MIND!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

THURSDAY JANUARY 14, 2020.

SUBJECT:  THE RENEWAL OF YOUR MIND!

Memory verse:  "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect Will of God." (Romans 12 vs 2.) 

READ:  Ephesians 4 vs 22 - 24:

4:22: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

4:23: and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

4:24: and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

INTIMATION:

The renewal of your mind mentioned in the Scripture is not that your mind itself, in its natural powers of memory, judgement and perception, is changed, but ‘the spirit of your mind,’ is subjected under the controlling power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, which directs your mind’s inclination and energies Godward in the enjoyment of “fellowship with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ, and the fulfillment of the Will of God. It is the adjustment of your moral and spiritual vision, and thinking of your mind to the mind of God, which is designed to have a transforming effect upon your life.

The committed mind is directed by purposes that are higher than the material world and the ambitions of the selfishly driven individual. The thinking of the Christian is to be on those things that will just beyond the existence of the world. Therefore, he is not to engage his thinking in those things that would divert his life from the eternal purposes of God. The Christians must not center his thoughts and actions around things that pertain to the desires of the world. This renewing of your mind by the Holy Spirit is not a fresh bestowment of the Spirit, but a revival of His power, developing the Christian life, and this requires, as it were, the willing response of the believer. 

The renewal of your mind is a process. Although, at recreation, we have a new nature, we don’t automatically think all good thoughts and express all right attitudes when we become new people in Christ. But if we keep listening to God, we will be changing all the time. Although, change may be slow, it comes as you trust God to change you—giving your willing response to the Spirit. As the Scripture states, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD. (Second Corinthians 3 vs 18.)

The renewal of our minds start with the new nature, and the impartation of a new kind of knowledge—the revelation knowledge from the Holy Spirit. The spiritual knowledge that comes through the recreated spirit, springs up in us, and empowers us to trust in God and His Word, acting on the Word and living in it. However, the mind can't be renewed by the study of the Word only. There must be a continual practice of the Word. For the recreation to be fully actualized, the Word must live in you so that it becomes part of you. Just as your blood is part of you, just as your muscles are a part of you, the Word must become a part of your very being. 

When one obeys the gospel, the old man of sin is put to death; “For you died... your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3 vs 3). The Christians must now live according to the commitment they made when they crucified the old man at the time of their conversion. Since a Christian had formerly made the mental decision to live according to righteousness, they must now continue to struggle to put to death the desires of the flesh. The Christian life is an endless struggle to be morally led by the will of God (Colossians 2 vs 11; James 1 vs 21). It is a continual struggle to renew one’s mind.

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for the gift of the Holy Spirit, my Senior Partner. I thirst for the continual renewal of my mind by Him to conform to the detects of Your Will, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!