What do you feed your mind?

The question begs to be asked; how do you deal with your mind? What do you feed him? The mind represents the centrepiece of our being, the very location of all our thoughts. It is where our actions are shaped and decisions made. Solomon knew the importance of this he exhorted in his beautiful and poetic warnings: "Keep your heart (mind) with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life" Prov 4:23

Hear Paul's words:

"I beseech you......that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God.......and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind....." (Rom 12:1,2).

Man is a triune being. His Spirit is the very essence of him, this is where his connection or disconnection from God occurs. The Spirit is the being of man created in God's image, the only part of man that will return to his creator. The body is the shelter of man. Here is our physical outlook and appeal to the rest of creation, its composition has been described by scientists as mamalian, and further Homosapien. Then comes the location of man's intellect, his reasoning, his thoughts and factory of all his actions and consciences- the Mind.

While the Spirit has been dealt with in the new birth (regenerated and infused with God's spirit), the body and mind hasn't been changed! The body will of course be replaced at Christ's coming (what scripture calls the unveiling of immortality). The platform has of course been made available at Golgotha, and thanks to the resurrection, we can look forward to the day when we will "put off" this old body for a new one.

However the changing or renewing of our mind has been left to us. As long as we live in this world, we will be exposed to "worldly" ideas, images, thoughts and sounds. Any wonder Paul exhorts as above? We must be equiped to handle such pressures keeping our focus on Christ and our mind in subjection to his will.

.....to be continued.....