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The human brain receives information from the physical senses. It processes this information to create a reality – this is called our ‘mindset.’ This reality plays out in daily life. The decisions we make everyday are based on our mindset.

From the time we were born, our minds have been trained to think, based on the information our brain has received. This information has come from the world around us. By default, we live according to the ways of the world.

The New Man however, has a new mind – the mind of Christ. We have the Spirit of Jesus who renews our mind to think like Him. This new mindset goes against all conventional thinking. We see the perfect demonstration of this kind of thinking when Jesus walked the earth. He never thought like the world, hence He never did things the conventional way.

As sons, we have the choice of our source of information. We can either believe the information the world gives us as the way to live, or we can be led by the Spirit.

And be renewed in the way you think; put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. – Ephesians 4:23,24.

The New Man is led by the Spirit. The brain is not our source of information. It is the Spirit who leads us. The mind of Christ receives its information from the Spirit – and so the brain aligns itself to that mind.

We think like Jesus, and hence, live like Jesus.