Don't throw away your confidence...

As Christians we must renew our mind daily with God's Word or we will drift into worldly thinking and living. We have to calibrate our conscience to the Word, if we don't, our conscience will do what it believes is right; a man's mind seems right to Him... but leads to death. It's a subtle reasoning process that leads them one thought at a time into deception; the intent isn't to reject God's truth, but a mind not submitted to the Word will naturally disobey. That's why we hear about Christians doing shocking things like having affairs or embezzling money-they profess the Word with their mouth but their mind isn't being lined up with the Word. You might not be in an affair or stealing money, but are you submitting your conscience to God's Word consistently?

It takes just a few thoughts to before you're entertaining things that oppose scripture. The Word is counter intuitive to our mind-we must be purposed in submitting to God's truth. We don't naturally want to forgive those who've harmed us, love somebody who's unloving, give when our means are limited, or believe before we see, etc. So we must seek the Word constantly to stay on course-thoughts that don't line up have to be tossed out. Then we're still going to get off course, but we get back on and get better each time. And Jesus is with us every step-He never leaves us. His love and intimacy is the fuel that sustains us when we don't see how we can do what God asks of us. When we're depleted, tired and weary; He anchors our hope to continue onward and upward. Don't throw away your confidence-it will be richly rewarded. And thanks be to God-He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ-renew your mind with His truth!(Rom 12:2, Pr 14:12, Heb 6:19, Heb 10:35, 1 Cor 15:57) 6/7/13CIFL-LMM #renewyourmind #calibrate #christianinsightforlife