All about your inner man...

Today I decided to show for whom wants to see or not, the really reason of living a good life...there is no other reason... sorry, but the truth is...

God Loves You
Dr. Betty R. Price

Romans 12:1-2 tell us what to do with our minds and with our flesh

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God which is your reasonable service

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable and perfect will of God.

I know we can renew our minds, but we have to be forever thinking about God and His great love for mankind.  Because if you don't, you will think more in line with the world than with the things of God.  You have to understand that the body always wants to gratify the flesh.  You have to train it, make it do, kill it, sacrifice it.  And sacrifice is not fun, but it is the joy of the Lord you want.

Ephesians 4:22-24 say:

22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts

23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

It is our responsibility to do something about our minds.  Once a person has been converted and becomes a new man, he is to focus his thoughts on God, as well as the good things of life.  We, as Believers, should never dwell on immoral, fleshly, worldly, selfish, sinful or evil thoughts.  Sinful and negative thoughts disrupt and destroy our peace.  The mind always goes down to the level of the flesh, but we have to control it because we live in the flesh and that is the thing we gravitate to.  And that is why we need to operate in the Word of God in order to control our thinking, which will control our flesh.

Second Timothy 1:7 says:

7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.  So, we have a sound mind.  Therefore, we have to think about the things of God, so we can think right thoughts.