mind your mind

Set your mind on things above.” Col.3:2
The whole chapter of Colossians three describes a mind
that has been settled to glorify God.
Our mind is a great servant for our will even though the
raging emotions often don’t like it. They will constantly
conspire against the government of the Truth in our soul.
What a responsibility, to worship God with our mind!
Matt.22:37
Tons of books have been written about the complicated functions
of the human mind. I’m sure there are a lot of great
discoveries in those books. I wonder how many of them have
the understanding of the influence of sin on man’s mind.
Without a new birth man’s mind lacks revelation.
His mind serves sin even without his own efforts. Rom. 7:18
He can gain a lot of religious information even without the
new birth, but he cannot see the love of God.
Only by revelation can he know about the grace of God.
Without the free flow of this revelation there is no true Christianity.
The mind is our daily responsibility and the arena where
the devil is defeated every time when we agree with the ways
of God.
The Bible teaches us to guard, strengthen and to wash our minds
daily.
“…just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in the newness of life.” Rom.6:4