Controlling Our Thought Life – Sunday Thought For The Day
Our minds can be a powerful reservoir of virtue, righteous yearnings and Godly thoughts; but they can also be the polar opposite, e.g., filled with evil, wicked thoughts and yearnings. This is why its so massively important for us to pray with all earnestness that we would submit our minds to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
It is an unalterable fact that the more we think on the things of God, the more our minds and behavior become in sync with God. But, that can only happen when we are spending time in the word of God.
We must strive to spend more time thinking and meditating on the things of God than we spend thinking about making money, who is going to win the big game, elections, getting even for some slight, etc.
If we are to be honest, many times through the course of a day our minds are clouded with thoughts that are not beneficial to our lives as Christians or pleasing to God. How often would the Lord have us pray for someone or direct us, but we miss or ignore same, because our minds are not in sync with our Lord? That happens when we are not open to the leading and urging of the Holy Spirit.
It is a fact that we yield to temptation in our minds before we yield to acting upon that temptation. King David’s sin with Bathsheba is a prime example.
Let us determine this day that it is God we will serve. It is Christ Jesus with whom we have our fellowship and our walk; and it is the Holy Spirit to whom we will submit our thoughts. Remember, the enemy of our souls doesn’t stop tempting us just because we are Christians.
READ:
Philippians 4:8-9 (KJV)
8 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.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
About the Author
Mychal Massie
Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National Center for Public Policy Research. Read entire bio here
