It’s summer. It’s hot. It’s time to make sure the filter on your central air conditioner is clean. Ever notice the AC doesn’t break on a cool fall afternoon? No. The AC usually breaks in the hottest most humid part of the year. I know a lot of people who recently had AC problems, myself included. That’s when I got a lesson on air conditioners. Ours was actually still under warranty and fixed the same day. Thanking God for the little things in life. But I also got a good look at our filter. All the air throughout the year goes through those filters. The cleaner the filter the more effortlessly the air travels and the less the AC unit has to work.
We all have filters we run our daily thoughts through. Someone says something to us and we run it through our filter. We watch something on TV and we run it through our filter. Problem is we all have a different filter. Some filters have never been changed and are really dirty. Experiences such as trauma, abandonment, accidents, death all have the propensity to clog our filters. Then everything we experience, see, hear from that point on come through that filter. We may not know that our filter is not working properly or that something has changed. All we know is life takes more energy. We don’t think and process our daily thoughts and life like we use to.
I have good news for you. God gave us His word to renew our minds. The more word we take in the cleaner our filter becomes. The bible tells us in Romans 12: 2 (NIV) “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.” This means that when the world tries to get me to conform to it and what my experiences in the world have done to me I can transform my mind instead to the abundant life God would have for me.
Start today. Begin the transformation process of the abundant life by memorizing scripture that promises you the kind of life Jesus died for you to have.
Romans 5:8 (NIV) “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
We all have filters we run our daily thoughts through. Someone says something to us and we run it through our filter. We watch something on TV and we run it through our filter. Problem is we all have a different filter. Some filters have never been changed and are really dirty. Experiences such as trauma, abandonment, accidents, death all have the propensity to clog our filters. Then everything we experience, see, hear from that point on come through that filter. We may not know that our filter is not working properly or that something has changed. All we know is life takes more energy. We don’t think and process our daily thoughts and life like we use to.
I have good news for you. God gave us His word to renew our minds. The more word we take in the cleaner our filter becomes. The bible tells us in Romans 12: 2 (NIV) “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.” This means that when the world tries to get me to conform to it and what my experiences in the world have done to me I can transform my mind instead to the abundant life God would have for me.
Start today. Begin the transformation process of the abundant life by memorizing scripture that promises you the kind of life Jesus died for you to have.
Romans 5:8 (NIV) “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
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