A Pure Mind

The mind of every person is a reservoir of thoughts, memories, delights or pains, dreams or visions, and every fabric of what you are and what you are becoming. You will be tomorrow what is in your mind today. Your entire future is already shaping up by those good or bad thoughts or impulses you are embracing in your head. You are not a creature that grows up from your feet; you are a creation that grows down from your head. You are a marvel of created consciousness as a gift from the Great Creator so you can become a little like Him. Your mind and heart in the mystical sense is your soul where you make the choices of life. The mind, and it always includes the heart, is so powerful that what you allow to fill it cannot be stopped from shaping your entire person.

Our mind in a very minimal sense, is an electrical transformer that constantly transmits an electrical impulse to every cell of our body. Those impulses are both positive and negative. The positive impulse is life giving, healing, and are positive emotions; a wellspring of joy and happiness. The negative impulse fights off our infections, kills or subdues free radicals that the body derives from our unclean world and environment; and when it is overly empowered, causes depression, negative emotions of anger, and other unhappy feelings. A strong, healthy mind, full of purity, is a happy fountain of life; and that individual is a joy to themselves and others.

Now, we must bring the Bible into this mix. The Scriptures teach, “Keep thy heart [including the mind] with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23) Again, the Bible says of man, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” (Proverbs 23:7a) David said, “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.” (Psalm 119:11) The Word of God is Divine energy that empowers the mind of that saint that believes and receives the truth into his very being; mind, heart, and soul. When you add the natural impulses of a positive saint of God with the power of the Spirit by the Word of God, you have a spiritual giant. This was the secret of Hudson Taylor, G. Campbell Morgan, Andrew Murray, and the host of men and women that were veritable “mountain movers” for the Lord.

The Bible speaks of “corrupt minds” and the destruction that waits in the wake of such lives. Great saints have often become shipwrecks because Satan found a way to corrupt their minds. Paul almost screamed, “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” (Ephesians 4:31-32) He adds in Hebrews, “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” (Hebrews 12:15) These warnings speak of the mind as the very location where trouble begins. If it cannot conquer your mind, it cannot conquer you.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5) This is the greatest challenge of human life, but if it were not possible it would not have been commanded. The person of the Holy Spirit has made this the normal, expected New Testament standard. The Spirit was sent to the church to supernaturally baptize the converted saints into a Spirit-filled mind. Whose shoulder does your head sit upon? It’s your shoulder, so fill that mind with the Word, allowing Christ to fill it with His Spirit, and “…put away childish things.” (1 Corinthians 13:11b)