Chaplain’s Column – Controlling Your Thoughts
"For as he
thinketh in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7
There was a sign in a business that said:
"We are not
what we think we are; what we think — we are."
What are you
allowing into your mind that is thereby controlling your heart, your actions,
and your words? God made you so that you can’t think two thoughts at one time.
If you’re thinking what’s right, you can’t be thinking what’s wrong. And as you
think, so you will become.
Guard your mind. Center your mind upon the
Lord Jesus. Don’t let the devil take away your pure-hearted devotion to the
Lord Jesus Christ. Stay in love with Jesus and there won’t be any room for
those filthy, dirty, wicked, lascivious, lustful, and prideful thoughts that
bombard us all.
Start today to become more active in
controlling your thoughts and bringing them into obedience to Christ (2 Cor.
10:5). Use Philippians 4:8 as a sieve through which you pass each thought:
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any
virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
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