Refuse Trashy Thoughts

Posted by Edwin Joseph in God's Message Today on 09 23rd, 2009 | Comments

By: Max Lucado

“As he thinks in his heart, so he is.”
Proverbs 23:7 NKJV


To listen to our vocabulary you’d think we are the victims of our thoughts. “Don’t talk to me,” we say. “I’m in a bad mood.” As if a mood were a place to which we were assigned (“I can’t call you. I’m in Bosnia.”) rather than an emotion we permit. Or we say, “Don’t mess with her. She has a bad disposition.” Is a disposition something we “have”? Like a cold or the flu? Are we the victims of the emotional bacteria of the season? Or do we have a choice?


Paul says we do: “We capture every thought and make it give up and obey Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5).


Do you hear some battlefield jargon in that passage—“capture every thought,” “make it give up” and “obey Christ”? You get the impression that we are the soldiers and the thoughts are the enemies. Our assignment is to protect the boat and refuse entrance to trashy thoughts. The minute they appear…we go into action. “This heart belongs to God,” we declare, “and you aren’t getting on board.”


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  • As they say our MIND is the Battefield of Satan. The verse is amazing. It only speaks of effort from us to really be mindful of every thought and bring it into subjection to make it glorify God. Indeed I would agree, it will always be a battle!
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