Right-Side-Up Thinking about Yourself

God's word has the power to transform our lives- and it all starts with our thinking. The Bible calls us to have a "renewed mind." But what does that look like in real time? How does the renewed mind think about things like our relationships, our work, our religion, and our government? Romans chapters 12-16 give us specific examples, and starts at the most basic place: how to think about ourselves.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

- Romans 12:3-8