Are you often trapped by memories of your past mistakes or failures? Is there a video clip of those mistakes playing on a continuous loop in your mind? It is time for you to renew your mind and replace those messages of destruction and despair with ones of hope and love. God has a perfect plan for your life. He is waiting for you to thank Him for bringing you to the place where you currently are.
Dale Fletcher, of Faith and Health Connection.com says “I’m not sure most of us really recognize the importance of our thought life and the impact that it has on our emotions and our bodies. ” To Renew your mind is “one of the most important spiritual exercises that we can put into practice for improved health is to monitor our thought life and adjust our thinking so that it is ‘healthy’ or spiritual.” To do this we need to read and study the word of God more so that it will replace the negative information that we get daily from our worldly influences. Changing your thinking is the place to start to renew your mind. As Gordon Cox pastor of The Summit church in Liberty Hill TX says change our stinkin’ thinkin’ through the daily meditation of God’s word.
Giving your life to Christ Jesus does not instantly change everything you know. Now you face the need to renew your mind change your mind so that it is a new entity with thoughts that are geared more for Christ than for the things of this world. Dale Fletcher, also lets us know that we need to replace the negative thinking with more positive thinking and emotions. 1 Timothy 4:8 Physical exercise has little profit, but Godliness is profitable unto all things in this life and the one that is to come.
It is very important to renew your mind according to author Don Colbert, M.D. who wrote the book Deadly emotions: understand the mind-body-spirit connection that can heal or destroy you. In it he reveals that people who have made a concentrated effort to tackle their dysfunctional thought patterns (or renew your mind) they had fewer bouts of depression, anxiety, anger, grief, shame, jealousy, and all other toxic emotions. “It isn’t that difficult to replace lies with God’s truth. It just takes intentional and consistent effort… to find God’s truths and replace life’s lies. So it is very important for your overall health to renew your mind.
"See to it that no one takes you captive through the hollow and deceptive philosopy, which depends on human tradition and basic principles of this world rather than on Christ." Colossians 2:8
