2 Cor 10:5 "...we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."
We are militant about not allowing germs, viruses, or unhealthy substances into our bodies, yet cavalier about what we allow in our minds. We spend a great deal of money on disinfectants, antibiotics, and cleaning materials to protect our physical health....yet mentally we eat out of the garbage can.
These two verses, would indicate we may have missed something important.
If you become what you think about... then you should be very diligent about what you allow in your mind.
Instead we tolerate movies and music sprinkled with impurity as if a little redeeming content can counterbalance the defilement of our morality. We daydream as though our thoughts have no power. Our speech is peppered with vile expressions as though none of it matters. However, God says what we allow in our hearts determines what we do.
What would change if you took the same approach mentally and spiritually, as you do physically?
What if you insisted that everything that entered your mind was healthy, and free of contamination? What if each day you were disciplined enough to supplement your mental health with meditation on God's word? What would change if you demanded the same purity and safe content in your entertainment, that you do in your food?
Make those choices. Be intentional with your thoughts because each one has power. God says you should station centurions, swords drawn, to guard your heart and take any impure thought prisoner as though it were a lethal enemy.
Thoughts are never neutral so be prudent about what you allow to take root in your mind, because it will grow. Everything you do flows from what is in your heart, guard it carefully ...
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius
Instead we tolerate movies and music sprinkled with impurity as if a little redeeming content can counterbalance the defilement of our morality. We daydream as though our thoughts have no power. Our speech is peppered with vile expressions as though none of it matters. However, God says what we allow in our hearts determines what we do.
What would change if you took the same approach mentally and spiritually, as you do physically?
What if you insisted that everything that entered your mind was healthy, and free of contamination? What if each day you were disciplined enough to supplement your mental health with meditation on God's word? What would change if you demanded the same purity and safe content in your entertainment, that you do in your food?
Make those choices. Be intentional with your thoughts because each one has power. God says you should station centurions, swords drawn, to guard your heart and take any impure thought prisoner as though it were a lethal enemy.
Thoughts are never neutral so be prudent about what you allow to take root in your mind, because it will grow. Everything you do flows from what is in your heart, guard it carefully ...
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius
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