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Ok. I admit, I use my mind a lot. I think a lot about many things in life. It used to be a great barrier for me to understand 'spiritual things'. For example, I didn't know how to see vision, how does the word of knowledge and word of wisdom operate. It is something abstract and uncomprehendable at stage of my life when I was exploring. Over the years, as I walked the journey of all these, God has taught me lots of important lessons. There was even a time when I was told "not to think so much" just be led by the Spirit of God.

As I looked back, I realized that the MIND is an important faculty that God has created. WE are to love the Lord our God, with all our HEART, our SOUL, our MIND and our STRENGTH. We are to love God with our thoughts and what we think about. The MIND has to be renewed so that IT CAN APPROVE/DISCERN the will of the Lord - Romans 12:2. The MIND is the only faculty if renewed would be able to KNOW/APPROVE and discern God's will. God's will is not limited to the WORD of GOD only. His will is also God's purpose and intentions for our lives now and how we should pattern our lives after it. We need to know HIS WILL so that we can walk in it.

I've concluded that if I want to understand God, it doesn't mean that I block out my mind. It means that IF I want to understand God, His word and His will. I need to renew my mind so that I will understand as God has intended for me to understand. It's not obliterating the use of the mind so that I can understand spiritual matters, his word, his will. Experiences alone is NOT ENOUGH, experiences must be backed up by the Word of God and His will. History itself is insufficient for us to back up our spiritual experiences.

May the Spirit of Wisdom and SPirit of Revelation enlighten the eyes of our heart so that we may know the hope to which he has called us, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us whoh believe. - Ephesians 1:18 - 19.

Don't let anyone tell you not to use the mind. A renewed mind can approve and test God's will - his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 The issue is not to NOT use the mind. It is to allow God to renew the mind and then use it. :)

Comments

r.u.t.h. said…
yeah. the Spirit is the Spirit of truth who brings wisdom and revelation to our mind so that we can understand His word and be renewed in our thoughts and mind. :)
12:10 PM
franie701 said…
Thanks for sharing this. I was told before "not to use the mind but be led" as well. I guess I had used my mind to much to even consider if this statement is "aligned" with the bible and had yet arrive a conclusion.

I think you had address an important point - it is NOT not to use the mind (literally), but it is to use a RENEWED mind (by God). :)
1:17 AM
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