In my reading this week, Beth Moore draws out the scripture in Mark 12:28-30, when Christ answered the question, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" He answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." She, Beth, then asks if we have ever really thought about what it means to love Christ with all our MINDS. As women we get the whole heart thing but it really hit me hard in regards to loving God with all my mind. The parts of my mind that I hold onto past hurts and pains. The part of my mind that I go to when I am feeling depressed. Do I really want to let Christ in those areas. Beth states in the book that having our minds sanctified is an ongoing, lifelong process, but absolutely nothing will have a greater harvest in your life.
I guess for me this was convicting. I need to let Christ bring his broom or maybe shop vac into my head and remove those negative thoughts, doubts and insecurities. I think that our own personal way of thinking can become such a habit that we do not know any other way. I am starting today and asking Christ to help me to think on things His way. And that includes how he sees me.
I pray you are keeping up with your reading:) I love all of our discussions and I gain so much from all that you bring up. May God guard your mind and heart as you continue to draw closer to your loving saviour!
Christy
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Our Default Position
by Dr. Bill Gillham
You know what a default position is. It's what the settings on your computer return to when you exit a program that's running. Why does it do this? You programmed it to. When you close a program, the little guys inside the box scurry around to paste the default picture on your screen. Works every time. It's automatic!
Oh, that we might have such a button in our life. But, it's available! Although installing a program into a hard drive is a quick task, installing a "program" into our psyche is a process. We must "be transformed by the renewing of [our mind," renewing the way we think (Rom. 12:2). We are exhorted to "practice [to] have [our] senses trained to discern good" (Heb. 5:14). The more I "reinstall" Christ in my life and my ID in Christ, the more these will become our default position. What a way to live!
This so spoke to what we have all been discussing this week that I thought it was worthy of sharing w/ all of you! I've been learning that Satan can attack our minds just like the rest of our bodies & loves to begin there, because then he can have control in more areas of our life if he can cripple us there first. It can begin with pride, lust, or even a thought and before we know it that thought has carried us into a tizzy that we are unable to stop until we pray & turn it over to our Father who can master the master of deception. He's ugly girls...and I'm resolved that our intamacy w/ our power source or lack thereof is simple "PLUG IN", get it done-let's quit making excuses & Just Do It! Or as Beth would say, "Let's just do this thing". (for Him, for us, for our marriages and for our children)!
In Him (my power source), Elaina
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