Return to Sender

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,

whom you have received from God? You are not your own;”

I Corinthians 6:19

 

 

Recently we had a letter returned to us at our home and it was labeled:

Return to Sender – Unable to Deliver

The address we had sent the letter to was either incorrect as written or did not exist.

Yesterday, as we continued our series on thoughts, I spoke of a delivery of garbage being brought to your house.

I suppose when the delivery man rang your doorbell you would have a few options.

You could refuse outright to accept the garbage.

You could have accepted it, in the hopes that on further examination the bag of garbage actually held a treasure hidden somewhere.

Finally I suppose you could have believed the old adage – not in scripture by the way – that “one mans’ trash is another mans’ treasure”.

When it comes to thoughts though, as we grow in our discernment of the sources of a thought, and we correctly identify one as not coming from God or as an evil, wrong thought we ought to refuse delivery!

Don’t allow it in your head so to speak.

Too often, as believers, we choose to bring the garbage in and rifle through it.

We sift through the bag of garbage thoughts convinced that there is value in what we are doing.

Sometimes we even enjoy the mess.   

  But a simple question – what good comes from receiving garbage into your home?

More precisely – What good comes from receiving ungodly thoughts into the temple of the living God – whose temple you are?

You know its garbage so refuse the delivery!

Return it to the sender unopened.

Tell them the ‘old man’ doesn’t live here anymore!