THE evil one seeks to use a “thought” to get you to see yourself apart from the work of God on your behalf and who He says you are!
If we chose not to capture the destructive “thought” that the enemy brings to our mind that attacks the character of God to us, slandering Him through doubts about Him the trustworthiness of His Word, and replace it with God’s Truth we open ourselves up to the bombardment of the evil one’s condemnation, accusations, lies, discouragement, deception, seeking to separate you in your thinking from the truth about God and who He says we are as a follower of Christ, as those who are “in Christ.” And often spiritual and emmotional instability follows, doublemindedness, doubts, lack of assurane regarding your salvation, God’s trustworthiness, and as you see the spiraling down into despair, hopelesess, anxiety and fear riddled often follows as a result.
And these and more such like them a result of us having failed to guard our minds andputon “the helmet of salvation.” Ephesian 6:17- “instructs us to put on the whole armor of God and to “take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” When a soldier suited up for battle, the helmet was the last piece of armor to go on. It was the final act of readiness in preparation for combat. A helmet was vital for survival, protecting the brain, the command station for the rest of the body. If the head was badly damaged, the rest of the armor would be of little use.”-{gotquestions.com}.
The enemy cannot have our soul, having no claim to us as Romans 6:10; 8:2 1 Corinthians 1:18 testify! But often the believer can forget this in the”strorms” and when failing to guard the mind with the truth of God’s Word when under attack and not lifting up the shield of faith and instead laying down the sword of the Spirit, which are our spiritual weapons of His Word, the truth to combat the evil foe, we have left ourselves defenseless as it were. And to do so, leaves the dear soul where they “think,” and “think” and the evil one reminds them of failure after failure, sin after sin until there is nothing for the poor soul to do but sit down in their heart in utter hopelessness and despair! They see themselves apart from the sufficient work of God on their behalf “In Christ.” Subtle but satanic the attack on the child of God. CAN YOU SEE THAT? Do you know anything of such attacks? I’m sure you do.
“BUT GOD…” has not left us,abadoned us but tells us “Whatever is TRUE… THINK about these things…”-{Read Philippians 4:8}; We return to Him, His Word to guide, govern, equip us and in doing so we see the realities of …
Truth applied…
Frees us Up-{John 8:32 };
Builds us Up -{Acts 20:32};
Wises us up-{Hebrews 5:14};
Spiritually Changes us -{John 17:17};
Reveals Jesus Christ to us! -{Luke 24:26-27};
“Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on the things that are
above, not on the things that are on earth.” -{Colossians 3:1-2}
THE SPIRIT OF GOD seeks to use THE WORD OF GOD to get you to see yourself who He says you are “IN CHRIST,” and through the Work of God on your behalf and who He says you are!
GUARD YOUR MIND BY CHOOSING what you will THINK on:}
BELIEVE WHAT HIS WORD SAYS ABOUT YOU “IN CHRIST…”
God bless and encourage you,
Aidan.