Don't Listen!

 In any given day, we all are bombarded with a gazillion thoughts. These thoughts can be about anything good or bad. We all know this and experience this everyday. What we decide to think  on determines our lives. If we want a good life, we can't just listen to any old thought that pops into our heads and act on it. We have to trust in God to guide us.

That's why God said:

Proverbs 3:5 NKJV

[5] Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding.

He also said "Guard your heart for out of it are the issues of life." Proverbs 4:23. Other translations say, "Guard your thoughts because your thoughts run your life." Why? Because the heart, which is our thoughts, can mislead us. Our emotions can mislead us. They can deceive us! 

(*Note: Same verse, different translations)

Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV

[9] “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9 NIV

[9] The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 17:9 NIrV

[9] A human heart is more dishonest than anything else. It can’t be healed. Who can understand it?

So our thoughts and emotions cannot always be trusted as a gauge for our lives. 

Our thoughts and emotions can also be manipulated by the enemy, the devil. We know this. When crazy thoughts or emotions pop into our minds and we know we would never think that, it came from the dark realm by either the devil or his helpers.

Thoughts and ideas can also come through other people. 

So we have to examine our thoughts and emotions and make them obedient to Christ. 

2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV

[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. 

Ask ourself, is this a thought that would come from Jesus or the devil? Is what I'm feeling from Jesus or the devil? 

We can examine and scrutinize our thoughts or emotions this way. 

Then, accept it or reject it. 

This is how we make them "obedient to Christ." Accept or reject. 

This will prevent the devil or anyone else from making a stronghold in our minds, which is something to harm us, negatively impact our lives, or destroy our influence for Jesus.

Simply? Don't listen to the junk that doesn't come from Jesus, by His Spirit in us, or by His Word. 

Don't listen to the junk from yourself or others, because Satan can influence all of it.

Keep our eyes on Jesus!!

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Jeffrey Post