Set Your Mind
Do you begin your day conscious of where you fix your thoughts? Perhaps your morning begins with concern for the outcome of the day's activities. Maybe you continue a disagreement from the evening before with a family member. Perhaps it's the morning paper or news cast. Hopefully it is as Paul suggests to the Colossians, "Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth." (Colossians 3:2) But if you're like me, sadly, that's not always my first thought as I attempt to embrace my day. T. W. Hunt calls it the "Will Principal." It's a choice. Most of us go at life on instinct, which he says is the opposite of will. "The will enables us to obey in spite of our feelings." When I say, "I don't feel like having a conversation with God this morning," I am allowing the happenstance of life to be in charge of my day. When I get alone with God even when I don't feel like it, there is a clarity about life that I don't get otherwise. The key is to battle through our instinct to just go at it on our own strength (Set your mind on the things above) long enough to allow the Holy Spirit the opportunity to order our perspective on our day appropriately.Greg Tutwiler, CCLC, BCPC
Scripture verses are from the NIV unless otherwise indicated.
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Greg Tutwiler is a Certified Christian Life Coach (CCLC) a Board Certified Pastoral Counselor (BCPC), a member of the AACC, APPCA, IATM, and UNTCI, an Affiliate Coach and Certified Discipleship Coach with Blueprint For Life Institute, and an ordained minister with UNTC. Greg is also the author of the books, "Stand Your Ground," available at Amazon.com, Passages, and The Transformational Life Journal. You can visit his web site at www.freedomliving.org, or email him at coach@freedomliving.org. |
