Refresh the MindSample

DAY 5: How To Live With a Refreshed & Renewed Mind - by BJ Lane

In 1985, the International Maritime Organisation introduced a new computer-based navigation system for marine travel. 

Boats would now be able to see maps of the sea and land as they departed into the ocean for travel — the technology was revolutionary.

Before this new type of navigation was introduced, ships had a much more difficult task when setting sail. Because of the lack of proper tools, it was much harder for them to stay on course. 

For example, if a ship was heading west in one straight direction, and they steered off course just 1 meter without realising it, eventually the ship would end up in some place completely different from where it needed to be.

Our lives can be similar. 

We have a course that is set for us — a way of living that is pleasing to God — and it can be easy for us to get distracted and end up far off from that way of living.

Paul tells us, in Romans 12:2, that we ought to be renewed in our mind so that we may "discern what is the will of God”. God's will for your life is pleasing and perfect and it is the course at which our life should go.

But the question is, how do we discern what God's will is? How can we know it?

Let's look at Jeremiah 29:13 [MSG]:

”When you come looking for Me, you’ll find Me. Yes, when you get serious about finding Me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed.” 

This verse is reiterated by Jesus in Matthew 7:7:

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

As we seek Christ, we will find Him; and as we seek, we discover His plans and purposes for our lives.

We can seek God in many different ways:

- By reading scripture

- By praying

- By being in community with believers

- By worshipping

Living with a renewed mind is about the intentionality by which we seek Jesus and align ourselves to His will. 

Seeking Him wholeheartedly is how we live with a renewed mind.

Our prayer is that you may live with a refreshed mind through being in God’s word.

Questions:

(1) When is a daily time you can seek God daily? And what does this time look like for you?

(2) What is the importance of community in seeking God together? 

Prayer:

Dear Jesus, Help me to seek you. I pray that as I seek you each day that you would make your will known to me so that I may live by it wholeheartedly. In Jesus' name, Amen.