All My Mind

Introduction

Example: NASCAR

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Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, a physics professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book about the physics of NASCAR racing, and for her research she was given the opportunity to drive a NASCAR racer on the 1.5 mile track of the Texas Motor Speedway. With an instructor in the passenger seat, she drove the car at speeds up to 150 m.p.h. It was while accelerating to get up to that speed that the author learned an interesting lesson about race cars. She writes:

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, a physics professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book about the physics of NASCAR racing, and for her research she was given the opportunity to drive a NASCAR racer on the 1.5 mile track of the Texas Motor Speedway.

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, a physics professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book about the physics of NASCAR racing, and for her research she was given the opportunity to drive a NASCAR racer on the 1.5 mile track of the Texas Motor Speedway. With an instructor in the passenger seat, she drove the car at speeds up to 150 m.p.h. It was while accelerating to get up to that speed that the author learned an interesting lesson about race cars. She writes:

With an instructor in the passenger seat, she drove the car at speeds up to 150 m.p.h.

It was while accelerating to get up to that speed that the author learned an interesting lesson about race cars. She writes:

We trundled down pit road, and when Paul motioned, I pressed the clutch, shifted into third, then released the clutch and stepped on the gas…. A NASCAR engine is optimized for speed, so when you're puttering along at 100 m.p.h., it chugs uncomfortably. The solution is to go faster.

We trundled down pit road, and when Paul motioned, I pressed the clutch, shifted into third, then released the clutch and stepped on the gas…. A NASCAR engine is optimized for speed, so when you're puttering along at 160 k.p.h., it chugs uncomfortably. The solution is to go faster.

So, you get the picture. The author is driving the car at 100 m.p.h., but the car is chugging roughly like a locomotive. What's the matter with this car? It doesn't feel like it's designed for speed because it can't go even 100 m.p.h. without running roughly. But that's just it. The car is designed for higher speed! The solution to a chugging race car is not to slow down—but to go faster! This baby is designed to blister the asphalt.

So, you get the picture.

The author is driving the car at 100 m.p.h., but the car is chugging roughly like a locomotive.

What's the matter with this car?

It doesn't feel like it's designed for speed because it can't go even 100 m.p.h. without running roughly.

But that's just it.

The car is designed for higher speed!

The solution to a chugging race car is not to slow down—but to go faster!

Things run best when used as they were designed. You were designed to live fully for God. If you live halfway for God, you will feel like you're driving a racecar with a chugging engine. Your soul just won't feel right. The answer is to "go faster." You need to commit yourself and everything about you fully to the Lord.

Things run best when used as they were designed.

You were designed to live fully for God. If you live halfway for God, you will feel like you're driving a racecar with a chugging engine.

Your soul just won't feel right.

The answer is to "go faster."

You need to commit yourself and everything about you fully to the Lord.

Observations:

The point is that the driver has to give it all he has to make it work the way it is supposed to work

If he is only driving 100 km, then he is not using it for that which it was made

He is not getting the benefit of the race car

If he is just driving to the super market, then okay...

But when you are a race-car…and you are on the racetrack, then you have to give it all you got

We have must do this with God also

All My Mind

Mark

Mark 12:30 ESV

30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Mark 12:30 RVR60

30 Y amarás al Señor tu Dios con todo tu corazón, y con toda tu alma, y con toda tu mente y con todas tus fuerzas. Este es el principal mandamiento.

Transition

If we are commanded to love God with our mind, then we cannot abandon our mind

We have to give it all with our thought life

Once you become a Christian, you cannot continue to think the same way

We cannot be the same as the unbeliever

Once you become a Christian, you cannot continue to think the same way

Ephesians 4:17 ESV

17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

Ephesians 4:17 RVR60

17 Esto, pues, digo y requiero en el Señor: que ya no andéis como los otros gentiles, que andan en la vanidad de su mente,

The mind of a Christian is a place of worship

The mind of the Christian is transformed through a relationship with God

Ephesians 4:23 ESV

23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

Ephesians 4:23 RVR60

23 y renovaos en el espíritu de vuestra mente,

Timeless Truth

The Mind is a Place of Worship

Our mind is a stronghold of truth and a place of worship

The world has been given over to a depraved mind

Romans 1:28 ESV

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 1:28 RVR60

28 Y como ellos no aprobaron tener en cuenta a Dios, Dios los entregó a una mente reprobada, para hacer cosas que no convienen;

Renew Your Mind

Stronghold of Truth

Renew the Mind

Romans 12:2 ESV

2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2 RVR60

2 No os conforméis a este siglo, sino transformaos por medio de la renovación de vuestro entendimiento, para que comprobéis cuál sea la buena voluntad de Dios, agradable y perfecta.

Spiritual Battles in the Mind

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV

5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

2 Corinthians 10:5 RVR60

5 derribando argumentos y toda altivez que se levanta contra el conocimiento de Dios, y llevando cautivo todo pensamiento a la obediencia a Cristo,

Place of Worship

We Love Him with our thoughts

Philippians 1:9–10 ESV

9 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Philippians 1:9 ESV

9 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,

PH

Philippians 1:9–10 RVR60

9 Y esto pido en oración, que vuestro amor abunde aun más y más en ciencia y en todo conocimiento,10 para que aprobéis lo mejor, a fin de que seáis sinceros e irreprensibles para el día de Cristo,

Philippians 1:9 RVR60

9 Y esto pido en oración, que vuestro amor abunde aun más y más en ciencia y en todo conocimiento,

We Honor Him with our thoughts

Philippians 1:10 ESV

10 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Philippians 1:10 RVR60

10 para que aprobéis lo mejor, a fin de que seáis sinceros e irreprensibles para el día de Cristo,