Renew

Did you know that you can change the way you think. You can actually renew your mind. Your brain is a flexible, moldable, ever changing part of you. Researchers in the science community have actually been able to prove that the neuropathways in the brain can change as a person practices a different way of thinking, finds new beliefs, and looks at the world with a different understanding. Search this on the web and see how many different studies you get about the ways to change the brain. I love this because it confirms what the bible tells us about about renewing our minds. I will put it here in three different versions.

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. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Do not conform any longer 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.

Romans 12:2

Today do not go about your day copying others in the world that wake up and dread the day, worry about the future, get stuck in worries about a bad economy, angry because things do not go their way, no be transformed as you practice changing those pathways in your brain through prayer, meditation, and look at life through a totally different lense. This will bring you maturity, humility, joy, and peace beyond understanding. This change takes time, and will not happen at the instance that you begin your practice. It is called training and it takes some time, but those who are willing to put in this time and effort, the time and effort to connect with God daily, challenge themselves to think differently, and take the time to monitor their thoughts will be able to find God's perfect will.

Namaste'