Sunday Blogvotional: Renewing Our Minds

The only “playground” the enemy can “play” in is in our minds. His lies and deceits can cause us to worry and doubt, and in time, turn us from our desired relationship with God. When that happens, we no longer follow God but are unintentionally following the enemy (down a rabbit hole).

Paul encourages us in Romans to be transformed and to renew our minds and in doing so, we will come to know the Father’s “good, pleasing, and perfect will” (Rom 12:2). God wants to be in a close, loving relationship with us. He wants to be our provider, our protector, our teacher, and foremost our Abba (the most affectionate way of call him Father). To be in that kind of relationship with Him we have to be transformed from our old self caught up in the sinful nature into a new godly self clothed in Christ.

We can’t renew our minds by thinking of the old things, of sinful and ungodly things. The words renew and old are in conflict with each other. To renew our minds we have to dwell on new things, like the relationship we have with the father – one that is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy.

Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things. Phil 4:8

Encouragement for the week: When you find yourself thinking about your worries or the things that frustrate you or make you angry, make a conscious effort to redirect your thoughts.  Singing praises or quoting scriptures is an excellent way to change the path your thoughts are on.  You will find doing these practices will make you a more peaceful person.