Love With All Your Mind

SURRENDER YOUR THOUGHTS

Love God with all your mind (Matthew 22:37). Radically loving God with your mind is taking every thought captive. When you take thoughts captive, you are asking God to remove every thought that isn’t from Him and replace them with only what pleases Him. You surrender your thoughts and give them to Him! Paul in Romans 12:1-2 teaches us this concept. As you commit to worshiping God as a living sacrifice, you are surrendering all you’ve ever known to Him and choosing to renew your mind to God, His Word, and His Spirit. Loving God with your mind commands transformation!

What we experience can shape our worldview, but as we are born again, remember we are given the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:16). We are given wisdom and insight to understand the deep things of God.This includes your thoughts! You can think the thoughts of God because you have the Spirit of God living in you! Paul in Philippians 4:8 teaches us, “whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”

As you take your thoughts captive, make them obedient to God, and think the thoughts of God, you are loving God radically with your mind. Trust God in this process. As you radically love God with your mind, you are being transformed into His image!

PRAYER

Lord, thank you for giving me the mind of Christ! Teach me to love you with all of my mind. I choose to meditate on your ways alone. Amen.

APPLICATION

• Take your thoughts captive today by writing them down—the good and the bad.
• Surrender these thoughts to God and renew your mind to His truth.
• Ask God how to show you how love Him with all of your mind.