Change Your Mind

... repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance. - Acts 26:20


One of my favorite Peanuts comic strips features Charlie Brown saying to Snoopy, "I hear you're writing a book on theology. I hope you have a good title." Snoopy responds, "I have the perfect title: Has It Ever Occured To You That You Might Be Wrong?"

Snoopy's title reminds us that our understanding of God and what He requires of us is sometimes twisted. Because our wrong beliefs lead to wrong behavior, we need to "repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance" (Acts 26:20).

The Greek word translated "repent" is metanoeo, which means "change your mind." As Paul indicated repentance with God, and continuing the same way we were going. When we turn our thoughts toward God - when we truly agree with Him about what is right - our behavior will follow. Like a car, we go in the direction we are pointed. So, when we truly turn our minds and hearts toward God, our actions change accordingly.

Instead of going happily along, assuming that our choices are right, we need to regularly stop and ask ourselves Snoopy's question. As Paul taught, it is only when we are willing to admit being wrong that we can be certain of being right with God. - Julie Ackerman Link


We must acknowledge when we're wrong,
Confessing it as sin,
If we would know God's power to heal
And cleanse us from within. - Fasick

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires. - Os Guiness

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Acts 26:12-23

"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commision from the chief priests, at noon, O King, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you perseciting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.' "I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "

He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' "

Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me. Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophet and Moses said would happen, how the Christ must suffer, and how by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."

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When something didnt happen based on our desire, there must be something wrong... and it always ourselves problem...