God promises us victory...

God promises us victory through His Word…His truth will set us free & literally transform our life! Our part is to renew our mind with His Word, if not, we'll drift into worldly thinking & living-forfeiting the victory promised. Our conscience has to be calibrated to the Word, purposely lined up or it 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 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 reject His truth. 

That's why we hear about Christians doing shocking things like having affairs, embezzling money or other sexual indiscretions, etc-they profess the Word with their mouth but their mind isn't being lined up with the Word. You might not be doing these things but you will do things that oppose God's Word if you're not calibrating your conscience to His truth. It takes just a few thoughts before you're entertaining things that oppose scripture. Bottom line…any opposition to God's Word cheats you out of His promises. 

The Word is counter intuitive to our mind-we have to be purposed in submitting it 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. We must seek the Word constantly to stay on course-thoughts that don't line up have to be tossed out…immediately. Opposing thoughts allowed to linger become part of your thinking which lead to your actions which oppose God's goods plans for your life. Likewise, thoughts that line up with God lead to His good plans. You're still going to get off course, but His grace will cover you if you're seeking Him. 

When you mess up, don't turn away from God...His love & intimacy is the fuel that sustains you when you don't see how you can do what He asks. When depleted, tired & weary, His Word is your anchor to continue on. Don't throw away your victory-calibrate your conscience to His truth & live the transformed life promised to you! (Rom 12:2, Jn 8:32, Pr 14:12, Heb 6:19, Heb 10:35, 1 Cor 15:57) 6/13LMM #thinklikegodthinks#renewyourmind #christianinsightforlife