by Dona Hake
I once heard someone say, “Don’t believe everything you think.” Simple yet profound isn’t it? You know, if you begin to think about something too much, it begins to take residence in your mind, and before long it will rule your thoughts.
Yesterday I shared with you about keeping your mind in a state of peace as you allows the peace of God to rule over you. Of course we all have the right to our own thoughts and opinions but let us be careful to permit those thoughts be examined against the Word of God. If we do not keep ourselves humble, we can think that all that goes on between our ears is right. If we do not keep our thoughts in check with what the Word of God says, it will not be long that our thoughts will become opinions that cannot be challenged or or they will become actions that could cause us some big trouble.
We would keep ourselves guarded well if we would vow to live by what the Word says about maintaining our thought realm. In 2 Corinthians, Paul said if our thoughts exalt themselves against the knowledge of God…get rid of them! Such words are not worthy to keep residence in our mind and you clearly cannot trust them nor believe them.
2 Corinthians 10:5 (ERV)
“…and we tear down every proud idea that raises
itself against the knowledge of God. We also capture
every thought and make it give up and obey Christ.”
The secret to tearing down proud ideas and thoughts that are bad are knowing what God’s Word says about our situation. As we stay full of His Word we can look to the Lord and ask Him to help us to rightly discern our thoughts. Those thoughts that are not worthy of residing in our mind will quickly leave as we replace our thoughts with His. This reminds me of how it is so vitally important that we be in tune with Him and know that we are totally immersed in His Word and His peace. The mind that is full of His Word and peace is the guarded mind.