Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
I'm thinking this morning about the instruction at the beginning of the passage: prepare your minds for action. Prepare ("to put in proper condition or readiness"). Do the things that will get your mind ready for action. This is telling me that there is going to be action and that it will start in the mind and we'd better be prepared. Several verses come to mind.
Colossians 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
2 Corinthians 10: 3-6 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
So as you face this day get your mind ready for action. There is a battle. Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
I'm thinking this morning about the instruction at the beginning of the passage: prepare your minds for action. Prepare ("to put in proper condition or readiness"). Do the things that will get your mind ready for action. This is telling me that there is going to be action and that it will start in the mind and we'd better be prepared. Several verses come to mind.
Colossians 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
2 Corinthians 10: 3-6 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
So as you face this day get your mind ready for action. There is a battle. Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
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Jim, thank you for these very encouraging (and warning) words. -Paul J
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