Changing Your Mind

Jeremiah 34
Verse 10-11 "The officials and all the people had obeyed the king’s command, but later they changed their minds."

Partial obedience is disobedience, the people of Israel obeyed the command but later changed their minds. They went back to doing things the way they used to do them and broke their covenant with God. To repent means to "change your mind", your thoughts determine your actions and the direction of your life. Sometimes we repent in the wrong direction, have you ever had the Lord convict you about something in your life and you obeyed, but after while you "changed your mind" and went back to doing what you were doing before. Maybe it was about how you handled your money, or how you were spending your time, or the music or tv shows that you were watching, maybe it dealt with a relationship, or how you were treating people or the words that you were using. And like the children of Israel your repented for a little while and then you changed your mind and went back to your old ways. Let me interject that God has not "changed his mind" if he told you to stop doing something or to change the way you are doing something, he still means what he said. So unless you have received a clear word from God releasing you; you are in rebellion and have broken covenant with God.

Unfortunately many times we start out in obedience and when things in our lives start to get better we begin to relax and start to drift back towards our old ways. Let's draw a line in the sand and boldly declare that we are moving forward. If you see yourself starting to drift backwards, put on your spiritual brakes and refocus your heart and mind on the forward direction that God has called you to walk in.