A NEW HEART

I have minimal to no IT exposure; however, I once came across a common IT phrase that caught my attention, GIGO.  GIGO is the abbreviation for garbage in, garbage out.  Essentially stating that any faulty data entered into the computer will also result in faulty information emerging from the computer. 
 
It’s quite amazing that our brain is basically created to work in the same exact way.  All of our experiences are programed as software unto our hard drive which is full of personal data.  The bible refers to the hard drive as our heart.  The mind is simply a projector of what is programed in the hard drive.
 
As we do life, we acquire masses of true and faulty data that will eventually emerge and influence how we act, feel, and what we think.  Simply put, take for example a child that grew up in an environment where they were constantly criticized and looked down upon.  This child will eventually grow up into an insecure adult, always feeling and thinking short of measuring up to average standards.  Faulty data in causes faulty data out.  
 
For this reason, an individual can’t always help feeling or thinking a certain way even though they recognize that these feelings or thoughts are “faulty”.  They were so programed in the heart.
 
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he… (Pr. 23:7 KJV)
 
It’s also safe to assume that the truer information and data we acquire the more rightly we will act, feel, and think.  When we intentionally read and hear God’s word, we are able to alter “faulty” data beyond the level of the mind.  It has the potential to reprogram the heart.
 
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Heb. 4:12 NKJV)
 
 
This is exactly why we are urged to renew the mind daily, with the truth of God’s word. We are also appointed as stewards, monitoring what comes in and what comes out.  
 
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. (Pr. 4:23 NIV)
 
 
Although I never had much interest in studying psychology, I remember a psych. 101 conversation I once shared with a psychology major colleague.  She claimed that according to secular ideology, it is impossible to alter existing deviations in thought processes because they are embedded in the hard drive. “You would need a new brain” she said.  
 
Quite ironic because that’s precisely what happens when the mind is continually renewed.  Slowly but surely every “faulty” data is replaced with truth.  
 
I will give you a new heart…(Ez. 36:26 NIV)
 
 
 
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And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind (Rom. 12:2 KJV)
 
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! (2 Co. 5:17)

 

 

 You are what you eat from your head to your feet 😉