<p>1:21 <i>And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works</i>- Note how the &ldquo;works&rdquo; were done &ldquo;in your mind&rdquo;; a similar parallel is in Tit. 1:15,16. Paul had fully absorbed the Lord&rsquo;s teaching that the thought is the action. We live in a virtual world, lived looking at screens. At no other time in history has this perspective been more vital; that sin is in the mind, the thoughts are the works. The parallel Eph. 4:18 speaks of being alienated &ldquo;from the life of God&rdquo;. His Spirit, His living, His life and personality, can be given into our minds through the receipt of the Holy Spirit. Refusing that is to be alienated from God. The work of reconciling us with God is therefore fundamentally performed in the mind; for that is where the essential alienation is located. Our thought processes and worldviews are alien from Him; and the work of reconciling that alienation in our minds, in our evil spirit, is performed by the <i>holy</i> spirit of God.</p>