Ephesians 4:17

(4:17) "..futility of their thinking" is "empty thought processes". "Stop being empty headed!" is the phrase. "Use your minds intelligently and scripturally". Faith is not mindless, but rational, tactile and very, very practical. The first way that we can grieve the Holy Spirit is to use human viewpoint instead of divine viewpoint in assessing our condition in the world. Human viewpoint is assessment of our circumstance solely on the basis of human, natural phenomena and experience. Divine viewpoint is assessment of our circumstance on the basis of what the Word of God instructs us to expect. What could be more reasonable than that? Here is a written record and pattern to live by, pay attention to it and use it in your decisions about life and living. "Gentiles" refers to those uninitiated in Scripture and/or who are unrelated to God. Philippians 2:5 says, "..let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus."