This past Sunday we continued our NEW SERMON SERIES "Love 4th Power." We took another look at what Jesus said was the most important commandment. Jesus summed up the entire Bible in a few verses. For Part 2 Pastor Evan focused on the "mind." If you missed this past Sunday or any other, you can listen on-line at http://www.wyandottefamily.com/listen.html or you can listen on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wyandotte-family-church/id478735158?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4.
The mind!! That is where the true battle is. You know what I'm talking about. Your spouse makes a smart comment to you, someone at school makes fun of you, or someone cuts you off on the road and acts like it was your fault; what happens. Thoughts quickly fill our minds of what we want to say or do in retaliation.
Or have you ever experienced this before. You are driving down the road, cleaning the house or doing something else and all of a sudden a thought comes into your mind out of nowhere. Not only does a thought come in but this thought is fully formed and not a good thought. For instance, you are driving down Fort Street when all of a sudden this fully formed thought comes into your mind. "I should just walk into work today and tell my boss off. He never appreciates me or cares to notice how hard I work." You could have been listening to the radio and your mind was no where near that but within a split second that thought enters in.
The mind is where the battle is lost or won. What we allow in our minds, we we meditate on and think upon eventually becomes our actions. We learned this past Sunday that God asks us to love Him with all of our mind. We are called to not just let our minds wander but to take captive thoughts that do no honor him or love others. Pastor Evan did a great job breaking that down this past Sunday on how to win the battle and to truly love God with all of our mind.
May we be people with self-control that learn to allow our minds to be renewed and restored the way God intends.
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