Be Renewed

Romans 12:² “Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (NIV)

To make the most of your life, to have mental metamorphosis, to experience and enjoy consistent mental health the first thing is, Do Not Believe Everything You THINK. For many people, because they have intuition and they have been accurate in past decisions, they tend to think their thoughts are the final authority for their lives. That is a big mistake. God is teaching us not to believe everything we think. Just because you think it, does not make it true. I know you feel like the only person you can trust is you, particularly if you are educated. But I am saying that there is a higher authority for you to trust. Do not believe yourself every time. Why? It is because you and I have this amazing ability to convince and lie to ourselves. And we do it all the time.

That is why you need a trusted third party. That is why you need the authority of God’s Word. Jeremiah 17:⁹ “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (NIV). The truth is you will never get to a point in life where everything that comes from your mind and from your heart is consistently accurate. You always must give yourself the benefit of the doubt. That is, you must allow yourself to be wrong and check if there is another perspective that you need to consider. Why? It is simply because you cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth all the time. And you need to come to terms with that. A lot of the time we do not see things the way they are. We see things the way we want to see them, or the way we have been conditioned to see them by our hearts, disappointments, education, and experiences.

We tend to see through a filter. In fact, science tells us that when a person looks at an object, there are more signals coming from the brain to the eyes, than there are from the eyes to the brain. Every time you look at something, science tells us that your brain is telling your eyes what to see. Obviously, some things are coming from what you are seeing, but more things are flooding from your brain and trying to reconstruct what you are seeing. So, your brain is telling you what to see and it is called a filter. We all see through a filter but the more you train yourself not to always believe what you see, the more you can see as God sees. The more you train yourself not to always believe what you think, the more you can think as God thinks. 2 Corinthians 13:⁵ “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves…” (NIV).

Prayer: Father, I pray that my mind and my thinking will be governed by Your Holy Spirit, so that I will think as You think and see as You see, in Jesus Name. Amen!