Be transformed by the renewal of your mind. (Romans 12:2)
Consider this: Over the past
several months, has there been a change in your way of thinking? Thinking about
your faith or the various aspects of your faith, or perhaps a slight adjustment
in the way you look at the world and about your own life?
If you are a praying person, if
you read the scriptures or other holy books, if you have remained open to the
Lord working on your mind much like a potter works with a block of clay, then
the renewal is taking place. And I assure you that the renewal will continue to
take place as long as you are open to receiving what the Lord is trying to
teach you, often without words, in your experience and in your prayer and in
the way you live your life and live in relationship with other persons.
As for me, I take great delight
when I discover myself acting in ways that I probably would not have acted in
the past. I take great delight when I don’t pay any more attention to the gut
reactions I have to things, but rather am able to hold them up to the light of
what I have been studying or receiving in prayer. How about you?
Six months ago I would have
approached this particular issue and
tension in this way; now, however, I
have discovered that it is possible to toss away my original way of acting and
put on a new way of thinking which has led to a peaceful and profitable resolution
to the tension which was “running the show” in me for a while. And that is what
I think Paul means when he talks about the “renewal” of our minds.
In addition to that, I am
discovering that much of what the world esteems as valuable is nothing other
than an idol made of sand, and that things I once thought were interesting now
seem vapid and empty. Again, renewal of the mind.
Can you relate to any of these
things? Today in quiet time, I invite you to consider your own situation and
make note of the changes that have been taking place. The Lord loves you and
continues to work with you (and me) bit by bit, step by step, as we discover a
new outlook on life and on the issues and desires in our lives.
God bless you.
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