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Thoughts Along the Way
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Changing the Way I Think
"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think..." Romans 12:2
God has been using this verse in my life recently to CHANGE THE WAY I THINK! :-)
This verse was a memory verse that I was assigned as part of the Freedom Workshop that I attended for the past six weeks.
One of the ways God is changing the way I think is through the memorization of Scripture. (Actually this is a major way He is using.) Never before did I truly understand the importance of memorizing the Word of God. Yeah, I knew it was something Christians should do. And, I had at times been able to memorize some Bible verses and rattle them off occasionally.
BUT, as I have submitted to the authority of my leader in the Freedom Workshop and completed the assignments of memorizing the verses each week, I am beginning to see that it is so much more than knowing the words in the right order and where they are located in the Bible.
As I memorize the verses, I think about them. I meditate on them. They have penetrated deep within my heart. (Proverbs 4: 20-22) It does help that we have also been reading the surrounding Scriptures in which these verses are located. I have read them in context. I am understanding their meaning. They are becoming a part of me. They are changing the way I think! (see Romans 12:2) :-)
Last night as I was beginning well into a pretty regular interior scene of feeling sorry for myself because I had things to do around the house as part of my duties of wife/mother, the words of Romans 12:2 came to my mind. Yes, I had been attempting a conversation with the Lord about how I was feeling....and it was then that He reminded me that I needed my thinking to be changed.
If my thinking is correct, my actions will be correct. And as God changes the way I think, I will be transformed into a new person! The new person that is already inside me. The new man who is no longer listening to nor engaging the sinful nature that is still present within me.
I am so thankful for this evidence that the Lord is changing the way I think about my life and about memorizing His Word.
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