The renewing of your mind

But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; - Ephesians 4.20-23

Take off your old corrupt lifestyle dependent on your own lusts and let your mind be renewed.

Our old lifestyle was built on the old man, the person we were before Jesus saved us. He was a child of the world trapped in the world and behaving according to the course of this world blinded by our flesh and by sin.

The Bible says a lot about this renewing of the mind because the mind is where the battle really takes place. Someone has written of the fact there is a battle going on for our minds. Our flesh calls out and the Spirit calls out and our mind is where we decide that to do about it.

The Bible has plenty of answers.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus
Whatever is pure and lovely and honest…think on these things
Set you affections on things above
Look not on the temporary things you can see, but the eternal things that you can’t
Bring every thought into captivity

It is up to us, with the help of and by the grace of God.

Let our minds be renewed to follow Christ.