Around the Year With Emmet Fox - 15 June 2011
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Around the Year With Emmet Fox - 15 June 2011
MENTAL ASSENT
When you give your mental assent to any idea, good or bad, you associate yourself with that idea and you incorporate it into your consciousness - to the extent that you realize it. When you read a passage of Scripture you will, if you assent to it mentally, incorporate it into your life to the extent that you realize it.
This law, of course, works the other way too. If when you hear or read of some piece of injustice or cruelty, you approve it mentally by thinking that "it serves him right," you are associating yourself with that deed, and making it a part of your own life, even though you do not speak a word. It is the mental assent that counts.
Give your assent only to Truth.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my numbers, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity....So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God... (Romans 7:22, 23, 25)
When you give your mental assent to any idea, good or bad, you associate yourself with that idea and you incorporate it into your consciousness - to the extent that you realize it. When you read a passage of Scripture you will, if you assent to it mentally, incorporate it into your life to the extent that you realize it.
This law, of course, works the other way too. If when you hear or read of some piece of injustice or cruelty, you approve it mentally by thinking that "it serves him right," you are associating yourself with that deed, and making it a part of your own life, even though you do not speak a word. It is the mental assent that counts.
Give your assent only to Truth.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my numbers, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity....So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God... (Romans 7:22, 23, 25)
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