What's on your mind?

Answer it honestly, what have you been thinking about?

One night I was driving home from my friend's house and it was pouring rain. I was amazed by the beauty of the rain as it fell onto my car and the roads around it. Then it hit me, other people were watching that same exact rain and it was depressing them. We have the power to choose. We have the power to control our minds.

I was talking with my Pastor Steve one day and through one simple exercise he made me truly understand the power of our mind. Our minds are continually taking in millions of bits of information. Think about your feet. Can you feel the texture their on? I bet you didn't realize that earlier, but your mind was still reading it. How's your bum feeling? You feel all the pressure on it now? Bet you didn't realize that a minute ago. Our minds constantly reading information but we have the power to choose what to pay attention to.

In Romans 8:5 Paul says, "Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires."

There's always sin we could be doing, and there's always good we could be doing. The problem is, we normally focus on avoiding the sin and not working towards the good. Like Paul says, when our mind is on the sin, no matter looking for it or avoiding it, we live accordance to the sin. But, if our mind is on the good we could be doing with the Spirit, we live accordance to the Spirit. We are always naturally reading all this information but we have the power to choose what to focus on.

So what's on your mind? Avoiding the sin or living with the Spirit?

Make the choice.