Romans 8:5 -6
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
The true test of whether we are living by the spirit or the flesh is determined by the fruit of our lives. When our minds are governed by the spirit our lives result in life and peace. Can you say today that your life has complete peace? Something to think about! Am I being governed by death, being depressed, anxious, confused, frustrated, etc. or Am I fully resting in Gods will for my life?
Romans 12:2 says
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
How do I know if Im in the will of God? I hear that question often. Well when your mind is being constantly renewed by the word of God, your life comes into alignment with God for your thoughts will then be governed by the word of God. Additionally, when you surrender your life daily to God, you will be aligning your life with the will of God for your life and as your mind is governed (controlled) by the Spirit of God, it ends in life and peace. Then you will be able to Test/ Approve of what the will of God is for your life. You only come to understand and know this by having the mind of christ. I conclude with this chapter, for the deeper things in God can only be fully known by being in union with the Spirit of God. Be blessed with this chapter and let us grow up together in him and choose to live according to the spirit by daily renewing our minds by the word of God and submitting to his will for our lives:
I Cor 2:
God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”[b]—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”[d]
But we have the mind of Christ.
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