How to use your mind for God tx
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How to do God’s Will with your mind
The word of God says, ‘This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice’ and enjoy it. Now, if you’re going to have a good day and enjoy it, you must stop complaining about the weather. The weather is God’s business and none of yours.
Some other ingredients for having a good day include: Go to work to cheer up people. Help people. Console people. Be friendly and understand people. That’s serving your brother and sister and that’s being like Jesus Christ.
Practice being positive. Unrestrained human nature practices being negative. It’s counterproductive and degenerative. When your life is lived positively, then positive things begin to happen to you. If you are living negativelyÑwhich is normal, but evilÑsometimes you won’t even recognize good things happening to you. Negativism, inwardness, selfishness, indifference, hate and murder are all brothers of destruction. This is why Christ said if you hate your brother, you are the same as a murderer (1 John 3:15).
By practicing attitudes that are destructive, you cannot expect to live a constructive life. But when you’re practicing attitudes that are constructiveÑsuch as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self controlÑyou are, in fact, practicing godliness, or imitating God (Gal. 5:24-25; Col. 1:10; Eph. 5:1).
If we practice things that are not good in our daily lives, we will become increasingly evil, by nature. By continually practicing evil behavior, we become more like Satan, our earthly father (John 8:41, 44). But if we practice daily what is right, good, honorable, uplifting and pleasing in the sight of our heavenly Father, we will become more like our Father in heaven (1 John 3: 7-10). We will be living holy lives instead of unholy lives. We become what we are practicing to becomeÑperfect (Matt. 5:48; 1 Peter 5:10).
We are, by nature, sinners. God wants us to allow Him to change our nature to one of a saint. In order to do that, we must practice living saintly lives by changing our thoughts to godly thoughts.
How many of us would want to see violence done to our children? Yet, we watch violence being done to other people’s children on television and vicariously enjoy it. If we didn’t enjoy it, we wouldn’t continue to watch it day after day. Don’t be fooled. What you see with your eyes and hear with your ears affects how you think with your mind (Prov. 24:12, 29; 12:14). We are not to look at what is evilÑviolence, murder, rape, etc. (Psalm 34:13-14; 1 Peter 3:10-11). That includes any sport that is violent or anticipates violence. Anyone who loves violence is hated by God (Psalm 11:5).
So let’s clean up what goes into our minds and guard those doors carefully, for what is in our minds has a lot to do with the condition of our hearts and what comes out of our mouths. ‘Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, think on these things’ (Phil. 4:8).