Wednesday, February 23, 2005

BE TRANSFORMED

God made the human mind fertile enough, such that whatever is grown on it must grow/prosper.

Notice that the commanding word is GROWN. The removal of that word nullifies the validity of that statement. All that is consistently/persistently committed to development within the framework of the human mind must certainly come to pass.

The possibility of the growth of whatever is planted on the human mind is not a function of its Godly or ungodly nature. It is a product of the commitment invested into the idea. At such anything a man puts his mind to do; it will surely come to pass. That’s why people like Hitler, Alexander, Gandhi,Mandela and a host of many other leaders had little struggle with their generation ,because they were completely sold out to an idea for which it became easy to carry along the many shallow minded populace.

For past and present leaders who encountered opposition contrary to the position above, it would be nice to note that such opposition arose simply due to the development of a different idea from theirs, and the person equally posseses an understanding of the possibilities available to him/her by investing time to nurse the ideas on their minds. So when such happens, you’ll have two ideologies struggling to be established. You have one regarded to as a rebellion while the other is called policies/government or dispensation.

Rebellion is a place of possible maturity of an idea conceived over time.

Therefore it is okay to speculate that every ideologist is a rebel of another dispensation.

The human mind is a sowing ground for the things we see and reap physically. (E.g. your actions/character reflects what you have invested time to develop). So much that when the bible says the human mind is desperately wicked, it simply means that in the face of the fertile nature of the human mind, the desire/propensity to invest/indulge of the human being is tended towards evil. Man would rather invest the negative on his mind than investing the positively productive ideas.

That’s were we got things like atomic bomb ,nuclear ,biological and all other destructive ideas from, of course we have justified our position by redefining the creation of our wicked ideas. One of such justified position is the idea that the above mentioned creations exist for defensive/protection purposes, forgetting that man contends with no one else for the occupation of the earth. Man has become his own enemy.


Bringing it down to everyday issues like abortion, corruption,thrift, killings etc, we often make arguments to justify our position but that never changes the truth that the human mind is greatly propelled towards the involvement or accomplishment of evil. Redefining the moral position of our evil creation cannot change the eternal position of God about the issues we perpetrate in our minds.

Always trying to justify his position, man has lost bearing on vital issues about himself. The church is not exempted as we now see all once mentioned social vices finding their way into the church. Justification of position that was once attributed to the world has now become part and parcel of the people of God. We now define lies as wisdom, unbelief as human nature.

Sin has been redefined as fashion, style, fastness etc. Would our redefinition of the penalty of sin which is death equally destroy the certainty of the integrity and authority that follows the personality of the God head who has meted out the various judgments against those who indulge in such practices.

As remedy, God has enjoined us to be transformed by the renewal of our mind. So if the mind is where all battles are fought, then it means that wining of such battles must be centered on its constant renewal.

Finally, I pray that we would begin to retrace our steps by seeking the renewal of our minds by consistently dwelling on the secrete place of the most high which I believe is a place of worship and study of the word of God. BE TRANSFORMED.

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