"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Romans 12:2
Everything
that grace resulted in will be unseen in our life until our minds are
renewed in the particular area of the work of grace. The transformation
that grace brings us will only manifest when our minds are renewed. For
example, we are delivered from sin by grace, but until we change our
minds regarding sin and righteousness, this deliverance will not result
in a transformed life. If we continue to think in terms of sin, our
righteousness will never become obvious to us, even though we are
righteous.
The
renewed mind empowers us to think in line with what grace has
accomplished. When our thinking is at variance with what God says that
grace accomplished for us, then, we limit the hitherto unlimited power
of God. If, for example, we have a sinner’s mentality, we will always
say that we are sinners, and the result is that without knowing it, our
attitude will be like that of a sinner. But when we believe that we have
the righteousness of God imputed to us, we will think like a righteous
person, and ultimately behave like a righteous person, because as a man
thinks, so he is.
If
for example, your thinking is inconsistent with the truth of what
happened as a result of the work of grace in the area of healing, you
will constantly look forward to being healed some day. But if you think
in line with grace, you will know that you are already healed, and what
is left on your part is to believe and receive it. Until your thinking
is renewed to think along the line of what grace has done, you cannot
walk experientially in the fullness of your divine inheritance.
Toni
