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"Do you no know that in a race all the runners run, but only the one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will no last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified from the Prize."
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Change is something that is easy to say, but much more difficult to do. I recently have been doing some studying on the subject and would like to share my thoughts and perhaps hear others thoughts on the subject!
Change is not an overnight miracle, not an "easy" button process. Change requires training and work. But, the first and most important step in changing is mental. Below is my summary of the first step, changing your mind. later on I will post a blog about Changing your Habbits and changing your Attitude.
Change Your Mind:
Changing your mind is the first crucial step to sucess. For example you cant go on a diet still believeing that twinkies and icecream are good for you, you have to CHANGE your thinking. Twinkies and icecream are killing you. If you change your habbits, but not your thinking you will only fall back into the same rut.
In hewbrew repentance is "Meta" "Noeo" which in translation means 'change of thinking or mind".
So many people believe that repentance is feeling guilty or feeling sorry for what you have done, but repentance is admitting you were wrong and deciding to CHANGE your mind. Realizing that the road you were on, or the decisions you made were not the right godly decsions. An example of this would be someone who drank to much and was hugging the toilet all night, and saying lord if you please just make this pain go away ill never drink again....only to be found in the same exact situation in a few days. They did not change their thinking.
The reason this is so important is because we have to change our thinking to reflect God, so that we can please him, and we have to do it before its too late. In Luke chapter 16 there is a story about a rich man who lived a blessed and plentiful life. One day Lazarus, who was poor hungary and covered in wounds was at his door step begging for the mans scraps. But the rich man turned away from him. Later on, they both passed away and the rich man found himself being tortured in Hell. Lazarus, however, was with Abraham in paradise. The rich man sees them and asks for forginess...but Abraham basically tells him it is too late. There is no way for him to leave the place he is in and get to the place of God. and follows with this verse:
"But Abraham replied, Son, remember that in your lifetime you recieved good things, while lazarus recieved bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony."
-Luke 16:25
We musnt be like the rich man! He was too late, he changed his mind TOO LATE! Ive heard it said, that for non believers, this life on earth is the closest they will ever get to heavan, and for believers this is the closest we'll ever get to hell...and as awesome as that is for me to know, it makes my heart sadden for others.
"In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere REPENT (change your thinking). For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."
-Acts 17:30-31
You dont know when your life will be over, it could be today, tommorrow or in 50 years, so dont waste your time here on earth, if you are ready to change your life, your habbits your attitude....then start NOW...and change your mind.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Change is something that is easy to say, but much more difficult to do. I recently have been doing some studying on the subject and would like to share my thoughts and perhaps hear others thoughts on the subject!
Change is not an overnight miracle, not an "easy" button process. Change requires training and work. But, the first and most important step in changing is mental. Below is my summary of the first step, changing your mind. later on I will post a blog about Changing your Habbits and changing your Attitude.
Change Your Mind:
Changing your mind is the first crucial step to sucess. For example you cant go on a diet still believeing that twinkies and icecream are good for you, you have to CHANGE your thinking. Twinkies and icecream are killing you. If you change your habbits, but not your thinking you will only fall back into the same rut.
In hewbrew repentance is "Meta" "Noeo" which in translation means 'change of thinking or mind".
So many people believe that repentance is feeling guilty or feeling sorry for what you have done, but repentance is admitting you were wrong and deciding to CHANGE your mind. Realizing that the road you were on, or the decisions you made were not the right godly decsions. An example of this would be someone who drank to much and was hugging the toilet all night, and saying lord if you please just make this pain go away ill never drink again....only to be found in the same exact situation in a few days. They did not change their thinking.
The reason this is so important is because we have to change our thinking to reflect God, so that we can please him, and we have to do it before its too late. In Luke chapter 16 there is a story about a rich man who lived a blessed and plentiful life. One day Lazarus, who was poor hungary and covered in wounds was at his door step begging for the mans scraps. But the rich man turned away from him. Later on, they both passed away and the rich man found himself being tortured in Hell. Lazarus, however, was with Abraham in paradise. The rich man sees them and asks for forginess...but Abraham basically tells him it is too late. There is no way for him to leave the place he is in and get to the place of God. and follows with this verse:
"But Abraham replied, Son, remember that in your lifetime you recieved good things, while lazarus recieved bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony."
-Luke 16:25
We musnt be like the rich man! He was too late, he changed his mind TOO LATE! Ive heard it said, that for non believers, this life on earth is the closest they will ever get to heavan, and for believers this is the closest we'll ever get to hell...and as awesome as that is for me to know, it makes my heart sadden for others.
"In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere REPENT (change your thinking). For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."
-Acts 17:30-31
You dont know when your life will be over, it could be today, tommorrow or in 50 years, so dont waste your time here on earth, if you are ready to change your life, your habbits your attitude....then start NOW...and change your mind.