Have you ever heard anyone say, "I can't help what I think." ? I have and probably thought the same thing at some point in my life. Well guess what? We can controll what we think. Read the verse below:
Proverbs 4:23
23 Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.
God would not warn us to do something that we can not do. Here God is telling us to guard out thoughts. Now we can not do anything about the initial thoughts that pop in our head. Satan is good at bring thoughts into our head that are not godly. But here is the key. We can control what we continue to think think about. Here is an example. A beautiful woman walks by and you notice her. Now you have a choice to control your thoughts or to continue on to sin. If you are going to contol your thoughts you praise the Lord for the beauty of His creation and move on. If your are going to give into sin you continue to stare and start to undress her with your eyes. Now when you give the devil an inch he will take a mile. Next you will start to have thoughts of how she might be in bed...I think you get the point. God is so good to us. He has given us His word and instucted us in every way of the traps that are out there for us. Oh how God loves us and wants us to live Godly lives.
Notice in the latter part of verse 23 it says our thoughts are the source of true life. Now think on this. The Bible also tells us to develope the mind of Christ. So if we put these two things together....true life comes when our thoughts are lined up with the mind of Christ. That should give you something to chew on for the rest of the day!!!
So are you guarding your thoughts or are you allowing Satan to control them?
God bless you my friends!
Tom
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