The Word Renews Our Mind, and Our Emotions

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (Romans 12: 2)

God wants us to prosper and be in health, even as our soul prospers (3 John 2).

Our soul is made up of our mind, will, and emotions, and our emotions merely respond to what is in our minds.

Yet we have the mind of Christ ( 1 Corinthians 2: 16), and therefore be resting in this truth, we can receive the emotions that come from having His mind: love, joy, peace:

"For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." (Romans 8: 6-7)

The Spirit of God bears forth love, joy, peace, and the other fruit (Galatians 5: 22-23)

So, in order for our thinking, God's will, and His emotions to prosper in us, let us brings all thoughts into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10: 5)

This is not our obedience, but rather His obedience, which entails the following:

"But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

"And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

"Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

"And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2: 7-11)

Jesus humbled Himself to take on our sin and shame and lack, He died for all our sin, and now he sits in glory at the right hand of the Father, where he justifies us and intercedes on our behalf."

He is ever working on our behalf, so that whatever we may fear, whatever we may lack, whatever causes upset, we can rest in His Finished Working, knowing and believing that He is taking care of us and all things with Him.

We are called to grow from faith to faith (Romans 1: 17), taking in what we learn about Jesus in the Word of God, and thus we are transformed:

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3: 18)

The Spirit of the Lord makes us spiritually minded, and thus our emotions are transformed by the fruit of the Spirit!