Renew Your Mind...

As I sat in class, my mind wandered off...I wondered, how is it that we really renew our minds?  Of course, I researched, and here is what I found....

What does it mean to 'renew'?  To renew:

1. to begin again; recommence.



2. to renew a lease, note, etc.


3. to be restored to a former state; become new or as if new again.
 
Again, this  was a revelation to me.  I liked the 3rd definition especially.  It just speaks that there was once chaos and now there is a calm that comes over a person. 

 Romans 12:2 states "2Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. AMP 

 To me, to renew the mind according to Romans and dictionary.com is to become new to the former state from whence an object [person] has come.  Often we talk about restoration, meaning to bring back.  Renewing has more of a powerful impact in my opinion, because this implies that we are able to be made 'new' again.  When we sin, we have the ability to repent of those sins.  Immediately, God forgives us of that sin and it is as if the sin never occurred.  We are RENEWED in Christ.  We are free from that sin, and able to move in the things of God.  The only person that would hold us back is....us.  We are often held back by our own guilt, shame, and fear.  From those three things our purpose is held.  This is not the intent of our Creator.  It is our duty to live out what it says in Romans 12:2....renew our minds, make our minds new.  This has to be done daily....renew our minds, make our minds new....Selah...