We Love God With All of Our Mind (TMF:444)

Thursday, July 07, 2016
Peace to Live By: We Love God With All of Our Mind (TMF:444) - Daniel Litton
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       In order to have a healthy mind, first, we have to have a pure heart. Our thought-life should be one of purity. If were going around thinking impure thoughts, that is unpleasing to God and eventually is going to lead us to incorrect behavior. Our thoughts determine our actions. That is, we do what we are thinking of first. This is very basic. Remember what Paul said about monitoring your individual thoughts? He said to the Corinthians, “We… take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5, ESV). So, number one we have to be aware of what are thoughts actually are. Sometimes we are thinking wrong things without realizing they are wrong. Number two, we have grab hold of those thoughts, take them “captive,” getting rid of the ones that would be displeasing to God. This will take time, but it is a necessary struggle. It may take a lot of time, actually, but we should hang in there as it is well worth the fight. By having a filter on our thought-life we then have clean minds and have good thoughts which are obedient to Jesus.