A Change in Thinking

Day 36

If you missed my message from yesterday, so did I. I wrote and it was God-inspired. I saved it and went to bed. At 9:16pm est I saw the post was blank. Enough said. 🙂

My big question from today’s reading was, How do you renew your mind Wendy?

For a moment I went back to the old days, bJ- before Jesus. Not before salvation but before I truly surrendered to His Lordship. Those were the days I “renewed” my mind with soap operas, night-time drama, and Danielle Steele. Those were the days I opened my Bible on Sunday and Wednesdays. When we renew our minds with the wrong things, the wrong things will be repeated in our minds and carried out in our lives. It’s no wonder I was messed-up.

Girls, we think about what we think about too much.  Life for the Believer is meant to full, abundant, and free. If we aren’t living this kind of life chances are our thought life has stolen our abundant life and complicated things that were never meant to be complicated. We have power, so much power. Our power enables us to change our thoughts by accepting right thinking and rejecting wrong thinking. By changing our thinking, our life is renewed and begins to reflect Christ. The more we reflect Christ, the more we live for Him and in Him–abundantly.

This process doesn’t happen over night but is worth all the effort and sacrifice. I am now living the aJ life, after Jesus. Over a decade ago, I started a new “renewal policy.” It  involved opening my Bible on the other days of the week. The power within helped me turn the drama off. My preassigned radio stations changed and I know longer eagerly awaited Danielle’s newest release. The key to change in thinking, which leads to change in living is surrender. Surrender to the power.

Even aJ I don’t always get it right, sadly. But God… His grace is sufficient to help me accomplish the impossible. His redemption is unending, to redeem for good what I mess up. His love, well it is enough to cover a multitude of sins.

4 Comments

  1. Once again Wendy you are right on. Satan makes it so easy to clutter our minds with the wrong things, but we let him do it. The more cluttered my mind gets, the more i keep trying to analyze my way of thinking and justify it and it doesn’t take long for me to be in a big mess. I think the key for me is to remember i have the whole armor of God at my disposal yet i fail to use it! I need to turn off the outside clamor and spend time in Gods word and in prayer with Him and soon my proper balance with Him will be restored. We have to be on guard constantly against the evil one and his sneaky ways.

    As for yesterdays post- instead of the dog ate my homework we have now got “eek! The computer ate my post!”

    Thanks Wendy and have a great day!

  2. I completely agree Wendy!

    I try to only read Christian Fiction. Lately, it is hard for me to find good books at the library. I wish they would just have a Christian Fiction section! In between times when I am waiting for a new book from my favorite Christian authors to come out I will take out a Danielle Steele book and think about reading it. The one I currently have I checked out back in September and have renewed it 6 times without reading it! Youe words really spoke close to home for me. People don’t understand why I make these choices, but for me it has to be a way of life in all things. I can’t give God just half of me.

  3. Wendy, today you have shown me what the root of my problems are. I also spend too much time on all the “entetainment.” Changeing it is going to be a real challange because of my circumstances, I do not have a place where I can go to get away from the TV and radio, there is just nowhere to go!

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