JANUARY 6
A MIND RENEWED INTO CHRIST
“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” (Ephesians 4:23)
The negative forces seek to control with all their propaganda and brainwashing.
Many a battle is being fought and won in the mind, making it a vital necessity
that we “put out of the way once for all everything that would impede the free
action of your mind, be calm and collected in spirit, and set your hope
perfectly, wholly, unchangeably, without doubt and despondency, upon the grace
that is being brought to you upon the occasion of the revelation of Jesus
Christ,” (I Peter 1:13, Wuest).
With the Lord’s dealings with our thinking, there also comes a stripping away of
the façade and masquerade, which we have put forth because of our ‘thoughts’ of
the past. We thought we ought to act a certain way to have an image of
spirituality, which was not a true manifestation of what we really were, but
super-imposed as a disguise of what we thought we should appear. Now we are
challenged to “change your outward expression to one that comes from within and
is representative of your inner being, by the renewing of your minds,” (Romans
12:2 Wuest).
We rejoice in the truth, “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” (Col. 1:27),
because it is His Spirit dwelling within. Yet, because of the trappings of the
carnal mind it has been difficult to give expression of this INNER LIFE OF
CHRIST. Now, the more we are “renewed in the spirit of our mind”, the more we
can LIVE OUT that which HE is BECOMING in us. This is more than just the mental
gymnastics of our own self-efforts. It is the energizing of His Spirit upon our
human spirit, which in turn takes dominion over our mind and brings our mind
into subjection to the Spirit of Truth. May it become the ‘norm’ of our life to
just be thinking HIS thoughts, that we might “shew forth the praises of Him who
hath called us out of darkness into His marvelous light,” (I Peter 2:9).
Ray Prinzing
Sister Doris Prinzing
1130 Allumbaugh St. Apt 257
Boise, Id 83704-8700
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