“Knowing their
thoughts, Jesus said,
“Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?”
Matthew 9:4
Have you ever
entertained guests in your home?
Were you a cordial
and gracious host?
How about your
guests?
Were they kind and
considerate?
Suppose you invited
in some guests and, once inside,
they did everything
they could to offend you.
More than that, they
even trashed your home and disgraced you in the neighborhood.
Now at this point
most people would probably learn their lesson and not welcome those guests into
their home any more.
But not you – you regularly
open your doors to them.
And each and every
time their behavior is the same.
I know what you’re
thinking: “Why would anyone continue to allow this?”
And yet, we all do
this when we entertain evil thoughts.
We allow those evil
thoughts to wreak havoc in our lives on Monday only to invite them back in
again on Tuesday and Wednesday and…you get the picture.
Once inside they
could care less about the host.
So what do you do?
Stop entertaining
them and start taking them captive.
That’s right – tie ‘em
up and throw ‘em out!
As a matter of fact,
here’s an attack plan given by the Apostle Paul for
dealing with evil
thoughts:
“We demolish
arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of
God, and we take captive every thought to
make it obedient to Christ.”
II Corinthians 10:5
So we have a choice
when it comes to our thought life.
We can entertain evil thoughts
Or
We can capture those thoughts and make them
obedient to Christ.
What do you think?
What do you think?
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