The greatest asset to the human psyche is a sound mind. By God’s grace, he gives those who don’t know him grace to have sound minds. Consider those who have the wherewithal to make wise judgments. They are working in all fields of life. There are carpenters, plumbers, electricians, building contractors, teachers, health personnel, military services, etc. Because the Holy Spirit is operating in the world, He subdues the evil that would decimate mankind. Men and women have a common sense that without a work ethic their lives would slide into the abyss of meaninglessness. They take on the psyche dysfunctional behavior, dismantling the work ethic. This spirit falls into the world of sensuality abandoning the work ethic. Sensuality is the door to the bondage to fleshly lusts which rapes the mind from making sound judgments. This condition leads to mental instability that is seated in sensuality. The desire for good feelings that are not there is a train wreck into substance abuse, despair, hopelessness, escapism, abandonment of responsibility to provide for the family, subsequently looking for remedies to ease the emotional pain. Drugs, pain medications for the emotional wrecks of mind, and alcohol are the devil’s means of keeping you captive to his will. “And that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.” (II Timothy 2:26)
You may be wondering how you can get a sound mind. It has to be given to you by God. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a SOUND MIND.” (II Timothy 1:7) You say, how can I get God in my life? First, you must see the truth about yourself. “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 6:23) For the chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever which can only happen when you come to Christ. (Westminster Shorter Catechism) Our sins are leading us to eternal death. “For the wages of sin is death, BUT the GIFT of GOD is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) God has called you to repent of your sins with a godly sorrow. A grieving of your soul of sinning against a holy God. “God commands all people everywhere to repent.” (Acts 17:30) Believe that he is the Son of God who has been raised from the dead. In repenting you must confess your sins. “— that if confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9-10) Surrender your life to Jesus Christ. Confess your sins to Him and you will be granted the gift of a sound mind. You will be delivered to the kingdom of His Son. “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” (Colossians 1:13-14) You will be a new creation in Christ Jesus. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things become new.” (II Corinthians 5:17) And you will be gifted a sound mind. “For we have the mind of Christ.” (I Corinthians 2:16) As someone has said, we do not have the fullness of the mind of Christ but we have the potential of having the mind of Christ.
Bob Dylan, a major singer-songwriter in popular culture for 68 years emerging from the New York folk scene in the 1960’s wrote the song released in 1979 “Gotta Serve Somebody”. It is a clear picture of serving the devil or the Lord. A few lines make the point. “You might be a socialite with a long string of pearls. But you got to serve somebody, yes indeed, you’re gonna have to serve somebody. Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord but you got to serve somebody.” If the Devil is lord in your life, he will corrupt and poison your mind with sin and lawlessness. “Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.” (I John 3:4) Serving the Lord is the kingdom of sound minds free from the law of sin and death. “For the law of the Spirit of LIFE in Christ Jesus has made us free from the Law of Sin and DEATH.” (Romans 8:2) Find someone who will disciple you in the Word of God. This will secure in you a sound mind.
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