Renewing our minds

We are told to renew our mind. It is an instruction from God. It is important because we are bombarded with, molded by, and exposed to different kinds of lies ever since we were born. Lies became truth to us. Our whole mind was under the influence of lies. Our perception of what love is, what life is, who God is, or what's good or not, and every thing else was grounded to a certain degree of lies. And our minds were darkened until the gospel of Christ was preached to us and the Holy Spirit enabled us to believe. We learned the truth for the first time. And every lie in our minds should be exposed to the Word of God so that it may be aligned to His truth, sparing us to live our lives blindedly and uninformed. 

But it is a process. It takes effort and initiative. And there are things that we need to be doing and making a habit to allow God to renew our minds. Here are some:

• Reading the Bible - It is the Word of God. The whole world always speculates about something they do not know or understand, just like how they speculated who God is, which birthed to false religions. But the Bible records the very words that came from the mouth of God. He revealed to us everything that we have to know so that we may not need to speculate or grope in the dark, unsure of what the truth is. 
• Praying -  We are not just thinking of God, we are actually talking to Him. Communicating with God is a very great thing to spend time, than use it for some other things. It is also making us attentive of God's presence, that He is alive at this moment and He hears us.
• Fellowshipping -  It is the way believers share their lives to one another. Like prayer, it helps us see the reality of God not only in our life but also in the lives of other believers. And it helps us influence each other in a very good and godly way.
• Listening to sermons, preaching - It is like we allow a leader to help us understand and apply God's truth in our lives.
• Filtering media -  We know that when we watch a movie or listen to songs or read a book, it means we are allowing them to influence our minds or even reprogram it.For example, after we watching horror movies, we noticed that we became easily scared of things we were not scared of before. So we should always ask ourselves if we are going to allow this movie, or series, songs, books to influence our mind and pollute it. Read godly books instead, more of Christian songs and movies that, you know, not as worldly as almost all the movies of this generation. 
• Renouncing sins - Definitely. We are already forgiven in Christ but  if we befriend our enemies (sins in these context), they will lure us away from following Him. If we continue sinning, it will come to a point that doing it doesn't seem wrong anymore. 

There are many other things, but I think these are some of the basics. Our mind is so important. I don't know if I read it in the Proverbs but It says that our thoughts direct the course of life. Let us desire to fill our minds with Godly thoughts and with the knowledge of His truth, not compromising any single area of our lives to worldliness and deceit. I think it is enough reason to exert effort in allowing God to renew our minds.