Change Your Mind Change Your Life

Every year people around the world embrace the incoming year by enthusiastically declaring their resolve to be better & to do new things, however many fail in keeping these newfound commitments. They walk into the new year fully determined to do their best in changing their behavior but they fail to correct the most vital part to the success of their commitment; changing their mindset. Many fail to realize that merely changing their outer actions without changing their thought process, patterns or beliefs will only cause detriment to their progress. You see trying to change what you without changing how you think is pointless. As Luke 5:37 (NASB) no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins & it will be spilled out, & the skins will be ruined. Holding onto the same old mindset while trying to incorporate new actions will prove pointless, because at some point that old mindset will break thru causing your behaviors to revert back & damaging what little progress you made.

As believers we cannot afford to only view Christ as Savior but we must know & accept that we cannot change who we are until we fully accept & surrender to Christ as Lord. We must understand what Christ meant when He told us in John 10:10 that He came that we would have life & have it abundantly. How joyous to know that we have the capacity to live abundant lives in Christ. But in order to have this abundant life we must also accept the responsibility believing in Christ brings. When you believe in Him that came to give you salvation & an abundant life, you must be willing to now walk in a manner that I both worthy & pleasing unto Him. We are admonished in Ephesians 5:7-10 (NASB) Therefore do not be partakers with them; for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

When Christ is Lord over your life, you are no longer stuck in the darkness of this world but you are the light of this world and you have the power & ability to manifest that light in your life. Your desire to exude this light daily exist because you want to please the one who has given it to you.