After his encounter with Jesus, people found the once demon possessed man sitting at Jesus' feet in his 'right mind.' Hmm!
Anxious thoughts! Troubling thoughts! Rebellious thoughts! Evil thoughts! The list can go on and on and on. Believe it or not our 'thought' life is central to our actual life. As Emerson truly said, "a person is what they think about all day long." God gave us a mind to think, and if we're not careful it can run us crazy. Which is why Paul tells us to think on 'heavenly things' (Phil. 4:8). Since we know the battle is for our mind/(heart) we should be very, very careful what we allow into our thought process. The enemy knows that our eyes and our ears are the portals to our thinking and he blitzes us every day with ads enticing us to fix our thoughts everywhere but on God. And though we may not act on our 'evil' thoughts, let us remember Jesus still knows what we're thinking in our hearts. The key is to learn how to keep our thoughts and hearts pure. And for that there is only 1 remedy. More time with God and His Word.
Until Monday...
Pastor Botts
"we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." - II Corinthians 10:5
P.S. - Don't forget to set your clocks FORWARD 1-hour this Saturday night.
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