A perpetual exercise that a child of God must engage in is the renewing of the mind. Precisely, how important is it to keep at this? I will like to demonstrate this with an experience which I had long ago. In one of the past editions of Believers Convention of Insight Bible Church, Uyo, I was lodged at the expansive Le Meridien Hotel located in the serene outskirts of the city. I spent about two nights there and then flew to Lagos for another engagement. This time around l lodged at GrandBee Suite in Ikeja GRA. My first morning there, the attendant who was to serve my complimentary breakfast asked for my room number. I responded confidently, calling out the room number; but the young man look puzzled. “We don’t have a room like that”, he said. Then I realized that I had wrongly mentioned the number of the room I had occupied while in Uyo. Even though I had changed location, the old address still stuck with me.
“Renewing of the mind is our pass out of the depravity characterizing this world into the beauty and victory that is in the Kingdom. Without stressing this, the renewal must be by the word of God.”
This experience is descriptive of what many Christians go through, particularly those who are young in the faith. When we gave our lives to Christ and became born again, our address changed. At the point of salvation we are made to sit together with Christ Jesus in the heavenlies! That place is described as far above principalities and powers, beyond the reach of wicked rulers of this world. But our mind still plays pranks on us. Too often we keep citing old ways of doing things in God’s new kingdom. We think and act in manners not in consonance with the standards of the Kingdom. Renewing of the mind is our pass out of the depravity characterizing this world into the beauty and victory that is in the Kingdom. Without stressing this, the renewal must be by the word of God.