# 507 - Today's. du-votional comes from: Mr 8:33 “But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."
Such strong words from our Lord! And what a great reminder for us of the sway that Satan holds with our flesh and the world. Here we have the three enemies of Christ named in one verse. The devil, (Satan) the world (men) and our flesh (personified in Peter) Satan uses the world and our flesh to draw our minds away from the things of God.
The Old Testament said that the Christ MUST suffer, MUST be rejected, and MUST be killed, and when Peter rebuked Jesus for relating this information, he was in fact rebuking the Word of God. What was the Lord's charge against Peter? It was that his mind was not full of the things of God, but rather the things of the world.
The Holy Spirit reminds us in Rom 12:2, what we all need to do to combat this tendency. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
Years ago there was an ad campaign that said, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” We might say today, “A mind is a terrible thing to tarnish.” We allow it to become tarnished when we neglect God's Word. Let us rather commit to daily renewal.
And our minds are renewed, our lives are transformed as we prayerfully spend time in God's Word, believing it, and trusting it, and submitting to it in faith.
Father, it's so easy to skip our daily time in Your Word, help us to overcome this laziness, help us to eagerly look forward to the renewing of our mind as we spend time in Your Word.
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