Taking Responsibility for Our Minds

God calls his people to love Him with heart,mind,soul,and strength.Each of us is responsible to study God's Word,to handle His truth accurately,and to participate with Him in the renewing of our minds."Do not conform to the patterns of this world,but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.(Romans 12;2).

It is not always easy to identify patterns of worldly thinking.They become so familiar that we seldom think of them as worldly.One example of a worldly thought pattern is that we seldom question  the idea that people over the age of seventeen can fill their minds with garbage and remain mentally unpolluted.While it may be true that people of a certain age ought to have enough maturity not to imitate the behaviour they see in movies or on television,it is faulty to assume that people of any age can remain unaffected by what they see or hear.Just because we are adults doesn't mean that our brains have become disengaged from our senses.What we see and hear does affect how we think and behave.And just because we have the legal right to participate in certain activities does not mean that we have the moral right to do so.
What we put into our minds via our senses determines whether we will be conformed to the world or transformed into the likeness of Christ.We transform our minds by filling them with God's Word.We must accept responsibility to renew our minds daily through prayer, reading and meditating on God's word.