“We
take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:5b NIV)
One of
the greatest revelations of my life is: I can choose my thoughts and think
things on purpose. In other words, I don’t have to just think about whatever
falls into my mind. This was a life-changing revelation for me because as
Proverbs 23:7 (AMP) says, “As [a person] thinks in his heart, so is he.” I like
to say it like this: Where the mind goes, the [person] follows.
Now
God is concerned about the hidden [person] of the heart, which is our inner
life. Our inner life is what we think about. And like the scripture above says,
the way we think determines how we live and who we are. That’s why we need to
think about what we’re thinking about.
It’s
so important for us to understand this because if we don’t learn how to take
every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (see 2 Corinthians 10:4-5), we
won’t live the life Jesus died to give us – a life of peace with God, peace
with ourselves, great relationships, real joy and the ability to become all God
has created us to be. It comes down to choosing to believe what God says (the
truth) more than we believe our feelings, what other people say or our
circumstances.
-- Joyce Meyer, from her Everyday
Answers blog
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