the renewed mind pt2

The battle for our minds has already been won, praise God! But it’s still raging …

So what’s our part in the battle, if we already have the mind of Christ? Is the renewing of our mind solely the work of the Holy Spirit?

As we saw in the previous article, ‘we have the mind of Christ‘ (1 Cor. 2:16). The renewed mind is part of the new man (or better, the new humanity, the new creation), but we note from other Scriptures that we are instructed to ‘let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus’ (Phil. 2:5), and to be ‘renewed in the spirit of your mind’ (Eph. 4:23). Is this a contradiction? Or yet another mystery we won’t understand this side of heaven?