THE LAW OF EXCHANGE
Colossians 3:1-2
God’s Word does not just tell us what we shouldn’t think about. Renewing your mind is not emptying your mind and using your willpower to keep wrong thoughts out. The biblical concept of renewing your mind involves a spiritual principle that we will call the law of exchange. The law of exchange teaches that life operates on a constant stream of “trades” or exchanges. You must trade something you have in order to get something else. A student trades his time, attention, finances, and efforts to a college in exchange for knowledge that will help achieve his or her goals in life and a diploma/degree that corroborates that he has completed the outlined degree. We all make decisions every day to trade our thinking, our time, our energies, and our attention to places, people, and things. Those decisions are producing the life that you are currently living.
The life that you are living today is largely the result of the trading choices you have made in the past about your time, talents, diet, money, words, friends, and thoughts. If you don’t like the results in other words, if you want to change some part of your current life you are going to have to make some different trades. The key to changing your life really is making the right exchanges. When you became born again, you exchanged the old, negative, sinful condition of your heart for a new heart that is softened by the grace, love, and life of Jesus Christ. Renewing the mind is God’s way of extending the life of Jesus into every area of your life and relationships.
This is why Apostle Paul says: “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him (Colossians 3:8-10).
MEMORY VERSE; Romans 8:5
PRAYER; Purge me with hyssop, O Lord, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
