The Importance of the Mind

The Importance of the Mind — Part 3

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Title: The Importance of the Mind — Part 3 ------------------- Date: 5/16/2002
Keywords: "addiction" "mind"
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Passage: Ephesians 4:23*

…be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Questions

1. Do you think thoughts affect the attitude or attitude affects the thoughts? If you want to be wishy-washy and say they both affect each other, do you think they affect each other equally or one affects the other more?

2. How does this verse fit with Romans 12:2 we studied yesterday? (And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.)

Practical help

I’m not going to answer the questions I posed above in order to allow you to think about them unencumbered . After all, the topic for this series has to do with the mind and thinking.

Did God give you a good mind? If the answer is "yes", then I hope you are respecting and taking care of it. This would include controlling what gets into it, like pornography. If your answer is "no", then I wonder how you are able to make any sense out of this study in the first place.

Here is an excellent passage to think about as you go through your day today.

"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things." Philippians 4:8*.

Replace your negative thinking with thoughts and ideas that elevate God, you and others, and watch your appetites for the crude and ugly fade away. See you tomorrow.

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