Thoughts

Thoughts

 

Thoughts…

You can’t stop them

SO

What will we do with them?

Everybody has thoughts.

You cannot stop them.

It seems like thoughts

pop into our head from nowhere.

I have had thoughts pop into my head

of great power and thoughts of self destruction.

There are thoughts of love

and thoughts of lust.

As a boy, I remember the cartoon

where a devil stood on one shoulder

and an angel on the other

putting thoughts into the head.

You can’t stop thoughts

from coming into your head;

but we can control

what we do with them.

God holds us accountable

for judging and acting on our thoughts.

Just as some thoughts need to be judged

not good and locked up in a cell;

other thoughts need to be worked out for good.

Judgment needs to be quick

or we will spend too long dwelling on the wrong things

and not have time for the good thoughts.

Our brains are an amazing thing,

they say it is like a computer

which we use only a small percentage of.

Some of it controls motor skills,

some memory and part is on search drive.

It is the search drive that pops up new thoughts.

Like the internet, there are thousands of pop ups,

most you do not want anything to do with.

If they are not good – they waste your time.

  

I have a pop up blocker on my computer,

so I don’t see them at all.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had

a pop up blocker for the brain!

But maybe we do… The Bible says,

“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit.”

Loading up more of the Holy Spirit in our minds

would block out the bad.

Let the Holy Spirit protect your thoughts.

Scripture Reading

1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 NIV

19 Do not put out the Spirit's fire;

20 do not treat prophecies with contempt.

21 Test everything. Hold on to the good.

22 Avoid every kind of evil.

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 NIV

 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.

On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

5 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.

6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience,

once your obedience is complete.

Romans 8:5-10 NIV

5 Those who live according to the sinful nature

have their minds set on what that nature desires;

but those who live in accordance with the Spirit

have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

6 The mind of sinful man is death,

but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;

7 the sinful mind is hostile to God.

It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

8 Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature

but by the Spirit,

if the Spirit of God lives in you.

And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,

he does not belong to Christ.