A NEW CREATION
I think this year we can be making changes in our own lives, and in the lives
of others, as this is God’s way, and God’s design.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is]
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
First of all, before we can make a new start, or even turn
around our life if it isn’t going the way we would like it to go, we must start
with renewing our mind, and having the mind of Christ, as we are suppose to
have. This is certainly the starting point for change and for going forward.
1 Corinthians
How many Christians have renewed their mind since becoming a
Christian? If not, why not?
Do we as Christians like to wallow in our worldly thoughts, or are we really
trying to do some thing about our worldly thinking.
This is a good time to start renewing our mind, the beginning of a new year.
Renewing of our mind makes, does make us, a new
creation, for it is the mind that controls us. It controls our body, what we
eat, and what we do.
There is such a thing as mind control, where the mind controls us, when it
should be the other way around, that we control the mind.
We are the ones that have to make a difference, we have to make an effort, in
how we change, and if, and when we change. We have to make changes to our
thinking, in every area of our life, and when we make these changes to our
thinking, our health changes, and our actions change.
The Lord spoke to me at one time, about my thinking, and He
said that to stop my worldly thinking, I needed to put the Word of God into my
mind and spirit, and like so many I don’t seem to stop long enough to fill my
mind as much as I should, with the Word of God, now don’t get me wrong, I love
the Word of God, and if I didn’t know as much as I know, I would not be able to
write the way I do. None of us can get enough of the Word in us, and I know I
have to work harder at putting more of the Word into my mind and spirit, and I
have a desire to do so.
Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he
should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
When we are trained as a child in the ways of
our God, then we will not depart from our training. A Jewish boy child learnt
the first five books of the Holy Bible, by the time he was five years old, and
he learnt the rest of the Old Testament by the age of twelve.
Here are two verses of Scripture that God says, through lack of knowledge people
perish, and in Hosea 4:6, God says, even His people perish and don’t we see
that today, those who in our churches, who do not study the Word, have some
wild ideas of what a Christian life should be.
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision [no redemptive
revelation of God], the people perish; but he who keeps the law [of God, which
includes that of man]—blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he. [I Sam. 3:1; Amos 8:11, 12.]
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will
also reject you that you shall be no priest to Me; seeing you have forgotten
the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
How sad when any one of us do not have a vision
for the future, and do not have some idea where we are going.
We as Christians need a vision, other wise we will be one of those who will
perish, and are perishing, how sad to see this happening, how does this affect
our Heavenly Father’s heart, when He sees so many perishing, when they don’t
have to.
This year can be a new start, for each one of us, however far we are on our way
in the Christian walk, and whatever short comings we have, let us study to show
ourselves, an approved workman, that needeth not to
be ashamed.
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Isa 26:3 Thou wilt
keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
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24 Now to Him Who is
able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to
present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His
glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic
delight]
25 To the one only God, our Savior through
With much Love Ivan
