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| title: Gone Off Track | ||
| date: 28/12/2024 | ||
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| **Read This Week’s Passage: Romans | ||
| 12:1–3** | ||
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| The world today thirsts for true peace, joy, and love. Far too many suffer silently through pain, loneliness, fear, and sadness, without hope or healing. When emotional wounds deepen or remain unaddressed, a person can slip into a state of depression or face other mental challenges. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in eight people live with a mental health disorder (2022, www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-disorders). When a person’s mental condition spirals out of control, it can lead to various forms of self-harm or suicide. Every year, 703,000 people globally are lost to suicide, which is the fourth leading cause of death in young adults ages 15–29 (WHO, 2023, www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/suicide). For every suicide, dozens more are attempted. | ||
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| These statistics are especially pertinent to young adults, who are disproportionally impacted by mental health challenges. Surveys from nearly half a million internet users from 64 countries indicate that young adults (ages 18–24) are three to four times as likely to struggle with their mental health as their parent’s generation (Global Mind Project, 2022, https://mentalstateoftheworld.report). As we look at the world, and maybe even at our own lives, we realize something must change. We made a wrong turn somewhere, and it’s time we get back on track. | ||
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| These statistics result from an intentional attempt by the enemy of souls to hijack the mind. While today’s industries seek to control the mind through modern technology and media as well as fast food and junk food (this has been well documented), something bigger is at work behind the scenes. In the book of Job, at a universal meeting with God, Satan was asked where he had come from, and his reply was, “from going to and fro on the earth” (Job 1:7). Behind the scenes, an adversary is at work, seeking to take control of the human mind. However, we need to resolve not to conform to the thinking and conditions of this world. God is waiting with eager desire for us to turn toward Him and allow Him to transform us by the renewing of the mind. | ||
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| ***Please note that this Bible study guide is intended for spiritual guidance only and should not be considered a substitute for professional mental health treatment.*** | ||
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| As we study together the next thirteen weeks, we encourage readers to become familiar with other helpful resources that address mental health challenges. Two great places to begin are Youth Alive and Reminded: | ||
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| Youth Alive (youthaliveportal.org/mentalhealth) | ||
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| Reminded (reminded.org) | ||
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| Write out Romans 12:1–3 from the translation of your choice. You may also rewrite the passage in your own words, or outline or mind-map the passage. | ||
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| The apostle Paul’s inspired letter to the church in Rome provides a glimpse of God’s longing for believers to experience a renewing of the mind (Rom. 12:2). The mind is where we form ideas and goals, acquire knowledge, solve problems, answer questions, and make decisions. Solomon aptly summarizes the importance of the mind by saying, “for everything you do flows from it” (Prov. 4:23, NIV). Renewing the mind means replacing old thought patterns, attitudes, and motives with new ones. Renewing broken minds involves overcoming fears, letting go of bitterness, and finding purpose and hope. | ||
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| Such a renewal changes the way we view ourselves and others. Paul describes the humble attitude of a renewed mind in Romans 12:3, telling believers not to think of themselves “more highly than [they] ought to think, but to think soberly.” Paul was not only speaking of literal soberness, but as a metaphorical description of a spiritual state of being. While a sober mind is sharp and alert, an intoxicated mind is numbed, causing dizziness, weakness, paralysis, memory loss, and sometimes loss of consciousness. Drunkenness distorts people’s perceptions of themselves and their surroundings, making it difficult to walk and drive safely. Intoxication, whether physical or spiritual, severely impairs the ability to think properly. Spiritual sobriety involves keeping our minds healthy and responsive. | ||
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| Peter, a disciple of Jesus, warned believers to think soberly so they could resist the enemy’s advances. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet. 5:8). Speaking especially to believers in the last days, Peter wrote that “the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers” (1 Pet. 4:7). The enemy’s goal is to render our thinking ineffective. He knows his time is running out, he’s angry, and he’s making every effort to destroy us (Rev. 12:12). Early church teachers equipped believers to discern the enemy’s strategies so that they weren’t surprised by his attacks or “ignorant of his devices” (2 Cor. 2:11). Believers today should also be alert to the enemy’s strategies to hijack our minds and scramble our thinking. | ||
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| Peter was speaking from personal experience. On the night he betrayed Jesus, didn’t His Master encourage him to be vigilant (Matt. 26:40, 41)? Didn’t Christ warn him that if his spiritual life were unguarded, he would deny Him (Luke 22:31–34)? Peter’s lack of spiritual self-awareness led him to neglect prayer, and as a result, he cursed Jesus and later wept over his failures (Matt. 26:74, 75). He neglected to listen to his Savior’s counsel to be aware of how Satan was attempting to ruin his life. Later, Peter realized his need for Christ, repented, was restored in his relationship with Jesus, and became a great preacher of salvation. | ||
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| `Memorize your favorite verse from Romans 12:1–3. Write it out multiple times to help with memorization.` | ||
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| `What are three things a person can do to experience a renewing of the mind?` | ||
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| `List some ways Satan has held the minds of humanity captive. How has Satan held your mind captive?` | ||
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| title: Restoring God’s Image | ||
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| Have you ever wished you could go back in time and just be a carefree, innocent little kid again? God has similar wishes for your life. God created people to reflect His image in their personalities and characters. In the book Education, Ellen White comments, “When Adam came from the Creator’s hand, he bore, in his physical, mental, and spiritual nature, a likeness to his Maker. ‘God created man in His own image’ (Genesis 1:27), and it was His purpose that the longer man lived the more fully he should reveal this image—the more fully reflect the glory of the Creator” ([1903], 15). After sin corrupted humanity’s nature, God’s aim became the restoration of His image in His children. God’s original design cannot be restored unless we allow Him to reset our thinking and renew our minds. The new mind becomes a reality as we learn to “have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16). When we accept Christ as our personal Savior and Lord, we become a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17), seeking Him daily and aspiring to grow in Him by engaging in prayer, reading the Word, and seeking to be like Him (obedience). Through the power of the Holy Spirit, our thought processes will become one with His. His desires will become our desires, and we will think and act like Jesus. | ||
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| The great news is that transformation is possible with the help of the Holy Spirit. As Ellen White says, “to restore in man the image of his Maker, to bring him back to the perfection in which he was created, to promote the development of body, mind, and soul, that the divine purpose in his creation might be realized—this was to be the work of redemption. This is the object of education, the great object of life” (Education, 15, 16). Redemption aims to restore and develop the human to reflect the likeness of the Divine! This takes place as we consistently behold “as in a mirror the glory of the Lord” so that we can be “transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor. 3:18). We must surrender our lives to the Holy Spirit daily, sometimes moment by moment, so that He can transform our lives. | ||
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| No matter how broken our thinking or damaged our emotions, God offers us His Holy Spirit to rebuild, restore, and renew us from the inside out. God is big enough to handle all our baggage, wounds, fears, and sensitivities. No mental or emotional mountain is so big that God is unable to help and heal. It should be noted that the brain is not detached from the body; the brain is part of the body. Like other physical illnesses, some mental conditions may not be healed in this life. And yet in every case, God’s grace is sufficient. | ||
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| `What questions emerge after studying this passage? What parts are difficult?` | ||
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| `What other principles and conclusions do you find?` | ||
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| `What do you want God to do with your mind?` | ||
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| What relationship do the following verses have with Romans 12:1–3? | ||
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| `A renewed mind:Ephesians 4:22–242 Corinthians 4:16–18 2 Timothy 1:7Psalm 51:7–12` | ||
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| `Ephesians 4:22–24` | ||
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| `2 Corinthians 4:16–18` | ||
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| `2 Timothy 1:7` | ||
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| `Psalm 51:7–12` | ||
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| `A spiritually sober mind:Isaiah 5:20–221 Thessalonians 5:81 Peter 1:13–16` | ||
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| `Isaiah 5:20–22` | ||
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| `1 Thessalonians 5:8` | ||
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| `1 Peter 1:13–16` | ||
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| What other verses/promises come to mind in connection with the primary passage? | ||
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| Review your memorized verse from Romans 12:1–3. | ||
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