UCB WORD FOR TODAY 4 JULY 2024 – (THURSDAY DAILY DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE)
UCB Word For Today 4 July 2024 Daily Devotional by United Christian Broadcasters
TOPIC: Keep Renewing Your Mind With God’s Word
‘Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.’
Romans 12:2 NIV
How do we renew our minds? One pastor writes:
‘The way to upgrade your mind is to download Scripture. Doctors…of the National Institute of Mental Health did a fascinating study asking subjects to perform a simple motor task – a finger-tapping exercise. As subjects tapped, the doctors conducted an MRI to identify what part of the brain was being activated. The subjects then practised the finger-tapping exercise daily for four weeks. At the end of the four-week period, the brain scan was repeated. In each instance, it revealed that the area of the brain involved in the task had expanded.
‘That simple task – a finger-tapping exercise – literally recruited new nerve cells and rewired neuronal connections. When we read Scripture, we are recruiting new nerve cells and rewiring neuronal connections. In a sense, we are downloading a new operating system that reconfigures the mind. We stop thinking human thoughts and start thinking God thoughts.’
‘Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus’ (Philippians 2:5 NKJV). How do we fulfil that command? Paul tells us how: ‘Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs’ (Colossians 3:16 NKJV). Whether through preaching, teaching, reading, or singing, our brains are rewired in alignment with God’s Word, and we develop the mind of Christ. We think His thoughts. As a result, we end up doing His will instead of being led by our own will. So, keep renewing your mind with God’s Word.
FURTHER READING: 2 Chronicles 28-29, Acts 27:27-44
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