Indagatio Veri

           The renewing of our minds!! What a wonderful thing.  God is adapting us to a new environment; he is aligning us with a completely different reality.  It looks illogical, seems irrational, and only makes sense once He has transformed our minds.  There is one truth that is at the very center of the saving work of Jesus Christ, and is central for us to experience the fullness of God.  This mind-shift has to do with our sinful nature that previously separated us from God, but that because of the death of Jesus, we too now share in newness of life.  Understanding ourselves to be dead to sin but alive in Christ Jesus is the foundation for heavenly thinking.                  “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot...

         There are many verses in scripture that talk about the way we think and the way God wants to shape those thoughts.    God is in the business of renewing our minds; " And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:2)."  The word 'mind' in Greek means thought processes or reasoning; that means that God wants to change the way that we reason.            One story in Numbers illustrates this truth very well.  "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel (Numbers 13:1)."  It is important to notice that God promises the Israelites the promise land.  They send 1 leader of each of the 12 tribes as per God's instructions.  All of these leaders knew that God had promised t...