Ephesians 4:23-24

            “and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” Remember, in the last devotion I stated, “You are to have a changed mind to have a changed life.” The start of that changed mind is stated here in the first part of our verse for today, “be renewed in the spirit of your mind”. The idea of “renewed” gives a picture of “renovation”. Eliashib became friends with Tobiah, the enemy of the Jews, and turned one of the storerooms in the house of God into a place for Tobiah to live. I use Nehemiah 13:8-9a. to help explain renovation, “And it grieved me bitterly; therefore, I threw all the household goods of Tobiah out of the room. Then I commanded them to cleanse the rooms; and I brought back into them the articles of the house of God. You are told to, “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Colossians 3:2). Your mind is a storeroom for the holy things of God, but it has been cluttered with the enemies’ things. It should grieve you bitterly enough to throw out His things, cleanse your mind with the Word, and bring back the holy things of God. Now you can put on the new man “created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness”. When it’s according to God, your new man shows your Christian justification and your purity from defilement. Do you have a desire to change from the old man to the new man created according to God?