For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. – Romans 8:6
Have you met that anxious person who is confused or perpetually experiencing internal conflict, unsure what to believe, and insecure about the future? This is nobody’s ideal lifestyle! Yet too many live out the majority of their life in such miserable condition! The antidote to the misery of uncertainty is knowing and relying upon God and accepting His mysterious ways.
The Bible provides important instruction about the state of your mind. For those willing to embrace the mystery of God’s plan to save the world through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ, this promise is immediately fulfilled: “For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened” (Luke 11:9-10).
Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other” (Matthew 6:24). While the context at the moment was about the love of money, this quote is consistent with a theme throughout Scripture contrasting the things of God with the things of this world. Peace of mind and surety of soul is like a welcome package for the person who chooses faith in the Lord Jesus. Once the choice is made to trust God, instability begins to fade away through knowledge of and confidence in His character.
Do you long for a peaceful mind? Examine your faith! Pray for those in America’s chambers of leadership to be of strong minds and strong faith. Ask that many will discover faith in Jesus Christ as their hope and the hope of the nation.
Today’s Verse: Romans 8:6
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: 1 Timothy 3:14-4:2
14 I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, 15 if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. 16 Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.
4 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
