Notes of Faith April 12, 2025
Spring Into Life: A Renewed Mind
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 12:2
Practical, personal holiness is mental in nature; it’s primarily a matter of our thoughts. Before we sin with our body, we’ve failed in our minds. When we engage in righteousness, it’s because our minds are controlled by the Spirit. The Bible says, “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit” (Romans 8:5).
That’s why Paul tells us to reject the “old man” with its deceitful lusts and to “be renewed in the spirit of your mind” (Ephesians 4:22-23).
The key to victory involves our mental diet. If we feed our thoughts with rotten images and rancid concepts, they’ll be spiritually sick. But if we feed our minds with what is true, noble, just pure, lovely, and praiseworthy, they will be constantly revived and renewed (Philippians 4:8).
What are you feeding your mind today? Make the choice to not fill your mind with worldly things but to be mentally renewed by the Word.
Let the mind of the Master be the master of your mind.
Author unknown
Rom 12:1-2
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Living this life would make us holy and perfect. That is not going to happen until we are released from this body and the sin it carries in it. As believers and followers of Christ we MUST pursue holiness, to live as He did, because He died for us, and rose from the dead that we might live transformed, forgiven of our sin, debt paid, and the power to live righteously placed within our very soul with His Spirit. May we, each day, wake up with a heart and mind to pursue the mind of Christ!
Pastor Dale