LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR MIND
Love God with All Your Mind
“Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth.”
— Colossians 3:2 (NASB 2025)
Loving God with your mind means disciplining your thoughts to dwell on truth. The mind is where battles are won or lost. What you think about will shape how you live. This kind of love is intentional and it takes focus, study, and surrender.
Faith In Action
Dr. R.C. Sproul once shared that, as a young believer, he wrestled deeply with doubt—nagging questions about the faith he professed but hadn’t yet fully internalized. Then he encountered Isaiah 6, where the prophet sees the Lord “high and exalted,” with the seraphim crying out, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of armies.” That moment shattered Sproul’s small view of God. “I was overwhelmed,” he wrote. “My doubts were not resolved by argument but by the majesty of God’s presence.” It wasn’t a clever answer that brought him peace—it was a vision of God’s holiness that silenced the noise of uncertainty. From that point forward, he disciplined his heart and mind to return often to the throne room of God—not to seek explanations, but to anchor himself in the unshakable reality of God’s greatness. Faith, for him, became less about having all the answers and more about bowing before the One who does.
The Bottom Line
Sproul’s mind was transformed by focusing on who God is. Loving God with your mind starts with what you feed it. Truth must replace distraction.
Sproul’s mind was transformed because he chose to fix it on the character of God rather than the chaos of doubt. He didn’t ignore his questions, he redirected them. Loving God with your mind begins with intentional focus, not passive belief. What you feed your mind shapes what you believe, how you think, and ultimately, who you become.
In a world drowning in distractions, your mind becomes either a battlefield or a sanctuary. To love God with your mind means replacing noise with truth, confusion with clarity, and passivity with disciplined pursuit. Transformation doesn’t begin when the questions disappear, it begins when truth becomes louder than the lies.
Something To Think About
What thoughts am I allowing to shape my day, and do they help me love God more or pull me away from Him?What are your favorite TV shows to watch? How many hours do you spend watching them? Is this more than the time you spend fixing you mind on the Word of God?
What are the cultural narratives being pushed from your favorite TV shows that contradict the truth of God’s Word?
