It’s time to change your mind

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “The Great Adventure”

Our Bible verse for today: “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)

Our thought for today: “It’s time to change your mind”

The Christian life is indeed a great adventure – a journey through this world towards our real home in heaven and as we learned yesterday in our study of Jeremiah 29:11, God has a plan for us. However, although that plan is sometimes very specific, often it is general and therefore includes options and choices each of us must make. It is in that choosing that things can get confusing.

The problem for us lies with the heart and the desires of the heart. The Bible is full of warnings that the heart is deceitful and wicked and if left unchecked, it will lead us astray. Jeremiah warned us in Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable – who can understand it?” Likewise, in Matthew 15:19 Jesus declared, “For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.”

With those depressing thoughts about the heart in mind, now consider the truth Solomon declared in Proverbs 23:7 (above) that as we think in our heart, so are we. Ouch! Our thinking defines our life. Our life will always trend in the direction of our strongest thoughts.

So, the Bible says my heart is by nature wicked and filled with all sorts of detestable things, and that those things will define my life. That means that as I walk the path through this world, exposed to all sorts of potential evil and wicked, and just bad choices, the natural tendency of my wicked heart will be to opt for the bad? I don’t want that! What can I do? The Apostle Paul struggled with this dilemma too. In Romans 7:19;24 he wrote, “For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do; What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”

In his great little book, “Winning the War in Your Mind: Change your Thinking, Change your Life,” Pastor Craig Groeschel tells us it’s time to change our minds. Regarding all those wicked things the thinking of our heart will naturally lead us to, he writes that, “(our bad choices) are rooted in faulty and negative patterns of thinking. Treating those problems begins with changing that thinking.” This is what Solomon was getting at in Proverbs 23:7 and it is what the rest of the Bible calls us to do – change our thinking.

The life you have will be a reflection of what you think. We must change how we think and that means there has to be a change of heart. It’s time to change your mind. Tomorrow we will consider some ways to do that.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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