How's your control board?

Several weeks ago we began having some problems with our refrigerator. Instead of just keeping things cold at the appropriate temperature, the food was actually frozen. Every day we turned down the temperature until the fridge was on the lowest possible setting. Things were still freezing!! Upon further examination by a repairman, it was determined that the control board was malfunctioning and would have to be replaced. A new control board has been ordered from the factory and will, hopefully, be arriving soon.

As I was making my lunch today I started thinking about this situation again. That large appliance in my kitchen was created to fulfill a specific purpose. For the past 5 years it has been doing exactly what it was created to do. But then something happened and the control board started sending the wrong message to the rest of the machine. The machine began making a response to that incorrect message and my food began to freeze.

I, too, was created to fulfill a specific plan and purpose. Yet, how many times does my head send out a wrong message to the rest of me? A message that is contrary to the truth of God's Word for my life? If I am not diligent to take captive these incorrect thoughts, then I can be persuaded to behave in a way that is out of line with my purpose.

As believers we are admonished to constantly renew our minds to the Word of God. Sometimes this is a moment-by-moment exercise for me. If I allow myself to consider my circumstances for too long, I can easily experience an operating glitch! But the truth of the Word is able to bring correction and soon I am functioning the way my Creator intended. Thankfully, my warranty will never expire and I have a 24-hour on-call Repairman!

"For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

"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." Romans 12:2