Fighting the Fires of Dangerous Thoughts.Àpẹrẹ

We humans can convince ourselves that our thoughts are facts even if they aren’t. It’s like the Boogie man under the bed. Has anyone actually ever seen a Boogie man? What even is that? Or the monster in the closet–has anyone ever had a monster in their closet? Or the masked man with the chain saws in the garage. How many people have actually seen this in real life?

Colossians 3:1 says to seek and set our minds on the things above. That’s an intentional act, a choice. And he’s saying to intentionally think about things of Heaven–the things that matter to eternity, things that will make a difference for the Kingdom, things that will plant good seeds for a good harvest. He specifically says to not set our minds on things of this earth. If you had to take a thought assessment right now, are your thoughts focused more on the things of Heaven or the things that don’t produce healthy good things (the earthly things)?

Mathew 4:4 says that we are to live on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God—to live on it. That means it’s got to be our foundation of our thoughts.

If we aren’t reading God’s word to fill us up and transform us with the renewing of our minds, then we are void of fullness. When we’re not full on the bread of life (Jesus), then we are in starvation mode, and we fill that space up with the wrong things.

We have to fight the wildfire thoughts with our weapons, and God says that our greatest weapon is his Word! He calls it our sword. We need to pick up our Bibles when we start to go off on thought tangents, open it up, and ask the Holy Spirit for his truth. We need to fill up on who God is instead of thinking of who we aren’t. We need to fill up on what God can do instead of thinking about what we lack. We need to learn how much God has come through for his people instead of fearing that he won’t come through for us.

Lord, help us to extinguish our wildfire thoughts by living on the Word and setting our minds on eternity.