When we think about maintaining our health you might not always consider your mind as a part of that process. However, maintaining a healthy mind is extremely important. Furthermore, you may not consider that your relationship with God and your knowledge of His truth and His plan for your life is a part of maintaining a healthy mind. Scripture tells us in Romans 12:2, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (NIV) 
Renewing your mind involves spending time in God’s Word. It is very similar to what we think of as “physical feeding” except it is spiritual”food” for our souls. Much like a new seed needs water to “grow” we need spiritual food and water to grow spiritually and for our minds to know the truths in God’s word and God’s plan we must spend time in God’s word, renewing our minds. As the Bible says in John 15: 1-8, we must stay connected to the vine in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle and bear spiritual fruit,
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” (NIV)
Maintain a healthy mind, grow in God’s truth and know His plan for your life, by staying connected to Him daily through prayer and studying of His Word.
