Romans 12:2 – “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Dr. Martin Luther King once told of riding the bus across town every day to attend high school. In those days blacks were required to sit at the backs of buses while whites sat in the front. Even if there were not any white people on the bus, blacks still could not sit in the front. If all the “black seats” were occupied, riders had to stand over the empty seats reserved for whites. “I would end up having to go to the back of that bus with my body,” said Dr. King, “but every time I got on the back of that bus I left my mind up on the front seat. And I said to myself, ‘One of these days, I’m going to put my body up there where my mind is.’” (Source: Clayborne Carson, ed., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Warner Books, 1998, p. 9).
Our brains are a complex aspect of God’s creation, and our minds are the fountainhead of our lives. Marcus Aurelius wrote, “The most important things in life are the thoughts you choose to think.” Dale Carnegie, “If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Marcus Aurelius added, “Our life is what our thought make it.” (Source: Keith Hunt, “The Armor of God to Battle Satan #5.” In Keithhunt.com, Apr. 2009).
Every temptation comes to us via our thoughts, making the mind the battleground of the soul. Decartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” Transform your mind by the renewing of your thoughts. The Greek word for “transformed” is metemorpho from which we get our word metamorphosis. We experience an inner metamorphosis as our minds are renewed by God’s Spirit and His Word.
Have a blessed day!
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