1 Cor. 13:6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
When we rejoice in the truth we begin the work of being honest with ourselves and honest with others. This honesty opens up the opportunity to relate to others on a deeper level than the superficial hello how are you ...?
With this honesty we can allow the work of the Holy Spirit to convict us of sin and to guide us into all truth. So that the Word of God can be the powerful scalpel it is designed to be, helping us to differentiate between deception and fact, half truth and lies, or our justifications and our ulterior motives. We so easily deceive ourselves with our insidious mental mechanisms that lead us to wrong conclusions because they are fraught with worldly or selfish influences. We need to learn to identify these patterns as evil and allow God to remove them and be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
APPLICATION
I am more than ever committed to the process of renewing my mind, and being transformed by the Holy Spirit.
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