Mind Your Mind

Our common culture is marketing to us a gospel of the good life; How to be happy, wealthy and influential. Cultural values enter our minds and hearts and we become disciples of the world. Unfortunately, the standards of the world lead to selfishness and sin. In Romans 8:5 the Apostle Paul contrasts “life in the flesh” to “life in The Spirit”. Either living for temporary, physical pleasures of “the flesh” in our sinful natures or living in God's will, through the power of His Holy Spirit for the eternal. Either we have a mindset to oppose God's desire and focus on sin or to thank God and ask how He wants us to live. God promises that He will transform us and free us from our selfish ambitions. Through the Holy Spirit He will cleanse our hearts and minds. He will turn us upside down (or more correctly, right side up) and reorder our lives so that we let go of our sins. Praise God! Talk to Jesus! Invite the Holy Spirit into every part of your life! Commit to life in the Spirit rather than life in the world.