Romans 8:6 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man who is in Christ is marked by a spiritual mindedness that produces beautiful and positive emotional fruits; and of course, vice versa to the man who is controlled by his sinful nature. For the spiritually minded man, his disposition to life is positive and his interaction with men is beneficial. He looks at things from God\u2019s perspective and even when things are not going well, he hears and sees from God\u2019s eyes, and acts appropriately. He is in charge of his emotions and is not reactionary, and that\u2019s why he has life and peace and gives life and peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NLT says, \u201cletting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death.\u201d The mind that is wrapped by the old nature of sin is dead and produces death. Such a man is emotionally dead because he is spiritually dead. His actions are tainted with anger, bitterness, harshness, and negativity. He tends to be more depressed, sorrowful, pitiful, unnecessarily critical and self consumed. He lacks the joy, peace, inner rest, and positive attitudes of the Holy Spirit controlled man. Here\u2019s the test. Without bias, observe your spontaneous emotional expressions and they just may reveal what or who controls your mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLord Jesus, You control my mind. Holy Spirit, You control my mind. Let my emotions and attitudes be full of Your life, joy, peace and rest \u2013 all the time \u2013 in Your name I pray. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Romans 8:6 (NKJV) \u201cFor to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.\u201d The man who is in Christ is marked by a spiritual mindedness that produces beautiful and positive emotional fruits; and of course, vice versa to the man who is controlled by his sinful nature. For the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-romans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Romans.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}