I got away and renewed my mind. I feel so much different than I did before I left. It’s really hard to explain but I’m different.
When I started thinking about being renewed it immediately took me to Romans 12:1 which is the very first scripture I ever memorized. And in the mirror version it’s even more powerful.
Below are two passages out of mirror version that are just so powerful about renewing your mind and being renewed. Lots of commentary good stuff.
Romans 12.1 Live consistent with 1who you really are, inspired by the loving kindness of God. My 2brothers, the most practical expression of worship is to 3make your bodies available to him as a living sacrifice; this pleases him more than any religious routine. He desires to find visible, individual expression in your person. (The word, 1parakaleō, comes from para, a Preposition indicating close proximity; a thing proceeding from a sphere of union; to have sprung from its author and giver; originating from a place of intimate connection; and the word kaleō, meaning to identify by name, to surname. Jesus introduces the Holy Spirit in the same capacity: paraklētos, meaning close companion, kinsman [John 14:16]. The word, 2adelphos, comes from a, as a connective particle, and delphos, meaning womb. Commonly translated as brother. [See Hebrews 2:11] The word, 3paristēmi, means to exhibit, to present. In the context of the New Testament, the sacrificial system no longer involves dead animals, but living people. You died in his death and are now alive to God. [Romans 6:11])
I love this passage out of Ephesians out of the mirror version as well on being renewed especially where it talks about it need to go from your heart to your head and not the other way around like we’ve been taught. It makes so much sense now.
Ephesians 4.23 Be renewed in your innermost mind. (Ponder the truth about you, as it is displayed in Christ; begin with the fact of your co-seatedness.) This will cause you to be completely re-programmed in the way you think about yourself! Notice that Paul does not say, “Renew your minds!” This transformation happens in the spirit of your mind, awakened by truth on a much deeper level than a mere intellectual or academic consent. We often thought that we had to get information to drop from the head to the heart; but it is the other way around! Jesus says in John 7:37, “When you believe that I am what the Scriptures are all about, then you will discover that you are what I am all about, and rivers of living waters will gush out of your innermost being! The spirit of mankind was never contaminated; just like the watermark in a paper note. The lost coin never lost its original inscription and image [see also James 3:9]; it was the mind that was veiled by darkness; we were darkened in our understanding! Our thoughts were reduced to the soul realm reference, knowing ourselves, and one another merely after the flesh. Isa 55:8-11 There is nothing wrong with our design or our redemption; we were thinking wrong! In order for our thoughts to be rescued from the dominion of darkness, Jesus as the incarnate image and likeness of God, has gone into our darkest hellish nightmare, and faced our cruellest judgment and fears, and died our death! This is the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations, for our glorification! We were co-crucified, to bring absolute closure to every reference we have had of ourselves as a result of Adam’s fall! And while we were dead in our sins and trespasses, God co-quickened us and co-raised us, and co-seated us in Christ! Now, we all with unveiled faces may behold the glory of the Lord as in a mirror! And be radically transformed in our thinking in order to rediscover his image and likeness fully redeemed in us!)
Be blessed and have a wonderful day today!
In that day you will know that I am in my father and my father is in me and I am in you.
I have made it known and I will continue to make it known John 17
Matthew 6.6 