The Battle For Your Brain [b]

Let's be practical for one second. When we are faced with a fork in the road, a decision needing to be made, we have to be prepared to make the right choices. How do you know what a right choice is? What does a right choice look like? Feel like? Sound like?

In Galatians 5.19-21, there is a list of things that are not good for us. If anything we are watching, listening to, reading falls in line with these things, then we know they are not right for us. If a decision is being made and it feels like jealousy, discord, hatred if it will sound like selish ambition, if it looks like witchcraft, idolatry, drunkenness, sexual immorality... then we know it is not right. We know not to do it. The messgae version of this list is awesome: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community.

So what does a good decision feel like? The list of things that are Godly include love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, self-control, goodness, kindness and faithfulness. If something that come sout of our mouths, into our ears or through our actions and it is inline, agrees with these words, then we know they are right.

In 2 corinthians 2.16 it says "But we have the mind of Christ." And instead of looking at this verse like it's impossible, we should repeat it every morning, noon and night. We should look at ourselves in the mirror and say "But I have the mind of Christ!" And start making decisions that are in line with the fruit of the Spirit.