Having a strong mind is important. But what is a strong mind and how does a Christian maintain one?

Today I will share a few ways to be faithful with our thinking.

Welcome to the Shepu's Faithful Podcast, episode number 182.

Truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host,

Lauren Lushak. Hi, everyone, welcome to the Sheeproes Faithful podcast. I'm so grateful that you're here.

My name is Lauren, and I'm the host. Welcome. Thank you for tuning in. Today, we're going to talk about

the mind, and this was inspired by a

sermon my pastor gave. He did a short two-part series on the mind and the heart, and I hope to come back

and talk about the heart, but the mind really encouraged me, really spurred me on, really

convicted me, so I wanted to share some things that I was learning today. But first, I wanted to

start with this quote. I read out of this little book called The Loveliness of Christ by Samuel Rutherford,

their selections from his letters. And I've talked about him before in the podcast. But I read this

right before bed. And it really encouraged me. and it's one of these things when we talk about

the mind it's important what we store up in our mind and things like these are just treasures

for our thought life so he said why should i start at the plow of my lord that maketh deep furrows

on my soul i know he is no idle husbandman. He purposeth a crop. I probably said that

purposeth. I can't say that correctly. Basically, this quote, as I'm butchering it, is so beautiful

because it's, why should I start at the plow of my lord? Or why should I be surprised by or afraid of

the plow of the Lord who is making these deep furrows on

my soul he is no idle husbandman he his plan is for us to be fruitful his plan for us is to produce a crop

and so we know that the plow is hard work and hard on the land, hard on our soul.

Like it's, I mean, think about a plow carving into the earth.

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