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Instead, renew the thinking in your mind by the Spirit and clothe yourself with the new person created according to God's image in justice and true holiness.  
Ephesians 4:23-24 CEB
Our thinking needs help. 
Paul doesn't suggest more learning, more logic, but a renewing of our thinking by the Spirit!
How do we do that?
Practice asking God to challenge our thoughts, to be more aware of them, where they come from, are they helpful, do they line up with who Jesus is, and who he might have us be. 
There was a movement 'back in the day' based around WWJD? - What Would Jesus Do?
A question like that opens us up to allow the Spirit to shift, shape, renew our thinking. 
Find the practices that help you. 
Pray. 
Ask Him.
Ask the Spirit to change those thoughts. 
Replace. Replace those unhelpful, untrue thoughts with Truth. What does God say about me and to me? Let His Word be our guides as we step into 2024, and jettison the unhelpful and untrue. 
And Paul tells us to put on the new. 
Just like clothing we need to put on each day, daily we put on the person God meant us to be, the Image Bearer of His, and live out this calling, this calling to justice and holiness, a personal and communal, community of putting things right, of renewing out in the world, in the places we live, work, re-create, and worship. 
Practice.
Pray.
Replace.
Put on.
Live out.
Start 2024 knowing that you are Beloved, and allow that truth to renew your thoughts.
Clothe yourself with that Belovedness today. 
#iamBeloved

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