Sound Minds

Paul understood the chaos of human minds.

He warned Ephesians about "the futility of their thinking."

He told the Roman church - as for those who suppress the truth - 

God "gave them over to a depraved mind...

to sexual impurity... to shameful lusts..."

God desires that our minds are filled with life-giving thoughts.

Paul didn't tell the Romans to transform their minds.

He wrote, "be transformed by the renewing of your minds."

To Timothy: "God has not given us a spirit of fear;

but of power and of love and of a sound mind."

We can invite God to be present in our mind.

Or we can close the door to him.

- John Ortberg