Renewing your mind is sacred

 When we think of what is sacred, we don't often consider changing our mind to be a sacred thing.  When something is sacred you don't mess with it.  I think that the view of something sacred being solid and unchanging is actually exactly right.  So how can changing our mind on something be sacred?  Specifically, how can "renewing our mind" as written in Romans 12 be sacred?  The process of renewing our mind is a sacred process because it is not "our mind" that is sacred.  It is the truth that is discovered that causes us to change our mind that is sacred, and then our mind adopting that "new to us" truth and reconfiguring our view of the world based on this new truth that is also sacred.    Why?   Because it is an interaction with the living God that impacts a human life.  That is what sacredness is I believe. Coming in contact with something that is beyond what is considered part of our world.   But more than that, the "something" that we come in contact with is not only beyond or normal world, but it is also pure, holy, and perfect.  It brings something to us that completes us and makes a whole where we were not previously.  

The pursuit of the sacred is enabled when we realize that "our mind" is NOT sacred.  Looking within yourself to find what is sacred is helpful only to realize that what you seek is not in your mind or your own intellect.   That is a dead end!    Now, I know God is with us, and he does dwell within side of us, and we are his temple, but He is not our mind.  When you think about some of the thoughts that go through your mind, that is very easy to see that isn't' it?  :)   We MUST look outside of ourselves to find what is sacred. Looking within ourselves is like trying to find the missing puzzle piece by looking in the empty puzzle box.   It's not in there, you need to look outside of the box.     

Our human minds are powerful things.   When the source of our minds thoughts are from God it is an amazing and beautiful thing.  Without that connection however they bring forth many terrible things.  The enemy wants our minds to be our God.  Our world today has boxed in reality to what the mind can understand from a human perspective.   How limiting is that!?  It doesn't want us to "renew our mind".  Renewing our mind often brings us to a place of counter cultural belief.  It feels out of place.  From a human perspective, it is!   That is the point of "the sacred".  If it was common or natural it would not be sacred.   Not to say that we couldn't get to a place where what is sacred "is normal" to us.   What if our minds were tied more to Heaven than they were to Earth?   

       

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