Actions are not accidental; actions are parented by thoughts. If your thought-life is polluted, your actual life will be polluted. If your thought-life is crooked, your actual life will be crooked. In order to affect life in a more permanent way, then our thought-life must be reformed. This is why the bible says that we should not conform to the thinking system of this world; rather, we must be transformed into the kind of person God wants us to be by the renewing of our mind (Romans 12:2).
Many times we are frustrated with ourselves; the reason is because there is always a disparity with who we are now and the person we ought to be. In order to bridge the gap between whom we are now and who we ought to be, there must be a paradigm shift. This simply means a mental shift from low level thinking to high level thinking. God said in Isaiah 55:9,
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
There will never be a new you if there is never a new mindset. God is the most holy, most high, most powerful because of His thoughts. His thoughts are called high thoughts. To get on the high side of life without any sense of arrogance, then begin to replace those low-level thinking with high thoughts of God. Fortunately for us, high thoughts of God are in His Word, called the Bible; so they are accessible.
If you are born again, you have the high life of God in you; however, you may not see the expression of this God-kind of life until you begin to take responsibility for your thoughts. You must begin to determine what kind of thought you will permit to run in your heart. You must begin to consciously reprogram your thinking by replacing the low-level-human thinking with the high thoughts of God.
I have seen many people who are born again but are far from expressing God-kind of life. The reason is because, though they are born again, but their minds are not renewed; they still think much like sinners and worldly people.
Thoughts are very powerful; if they are good, they produce good life; and if they are bad, they produce a bad life—a life that is far from the original intention of God our Creator.
