Both here and on my original blog, Thinking Out Loud, I’m sure you will get some interesting results if you look up “thought life.” The battle for the human mind is key to understanding the dynamics of spiritual warfare. So it’s a topic I often returned to in past writing.
Stephen and Brooksyne Weber are my devotional-writing heroes. You can find them each weekday at DailyEncouragement.net. Here’s a recent article. Click its title to read it where it first appeared, and then take some time to look around. There’s a sequel to this article which appeared the next day which I also recommend and it is linked at the bottom.
Delete Key For The Mind
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship. 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 12:1,2).
The delete key on the computer keyboard is a helpful feature we often use. If we consider through the years all we have written that gets deleted in the editing process it would surely surprise us and might even discourage us. But that’s just part of the writing process and much better than the whiteout we used with a typewriter especially if there were carbon copies to be dealt with for every error we wanted to erase.
We heard an interesting testimony from a young lady who was being baptized. Though she was raised in a Christian home she shared about her years of being addicted to pornography. Finally she fully committed her life to Christ and experienced deliverance from the dark world of pornography.
The brain has an amazing capacity to remember. As we get older we are more likely to experience short-term memory loss rather than long-term. That is we tend to forget where we placed the keys, phone, wallet or coffee. But looking back it seems some events in life or images stored in our memory just can’t be forgotten.
Of course God is able to provide a deletion of memory but that is often not the case, so we can prayerfully, be transformed by the renewing of our mind.
A fundamental teaching is that God is pleased and honored when we follow His pattern for living as set forth in the Holy Scriptures. Let us not follow after “the pattern of this world” which stands in direct opposition to God’s designs for our lives.
Daily prayer: Father, we invite the work of Your Holy Spirit to descend upon our heart, to wean it from ungodly attitudes, destructive habits, and worldly passions. In love and compassion You stooped to our weakness, mighty as You are, in the person of Jesus Christ who lived a life of holiness, and willingly laid down His life that we might be forgiven, that our hearts and minds might break any conformity to this world and be transformed into the pattern of holy living as seen in Scripture. As we surrender our heart, soul, and mind to You we envision Jesus and cling to His cross by denying ourselves, taking up our cross and following in His footsteps wholeheartedly so that we are transformed by the renewing of our minds. It’s through the resurrected power of Jesus Christ that we are able to make this mighty, eternal transformation. Amen.
Here is the link to the sequel article which begins in the same Romans scripture passage. There are two diagrams you shouldn’t miss which contrast being conformed to be transformed. Click here to read.
- Things Which Rob Our Spiritual Focus (March 2023)
- Things to Think About (December 2020)
- Keeping Your Thought Life Pure (August 2015)
- Purity in Mind | Clarity of Speech (June 2023)
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