How To Change Your Mind!
"Remember therefore how you have received and heard;
hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I
will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know
what hour I will come upon you."
Revelation 3: 3
Before the days of GPS, driving could be tricky.
If we found ourselves lost, reliable strategy was
to retrace our steps until we discovered where
we made a wrong turn. We would change our
mind and go a different way.
Changing our mind is at the heart of one of the Bible’s
most serious spiritual actions: repentance. The original
Greek word for repentance is metanoeo, a compound
verb meaning “to change one’s mind or to think again.”
Repentance is a serious change in behavior. Behavior
begins with how we think and what decisions we make.
When we find ourselves acting in ungodly ways, retrace
our steps and see how our thinking led us down a path
of improper
behavior.
That was the message Christ gave to the church
at Sardis: “Hold fast and repent” or hold fast and
change your thinking.
If your behavior is not what it should be,
examine your thinking. Ask God to show
you how to think God’s thoughts after
Him.
"Christianity starts
with
repentance."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
