Our Mind

“Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”  Jeremiah 51:50

The above-underlined phrase stood out to me as I was reading this morning. It is a reminder that we do have control of what we choose to dwell on. Our adversary may attack us with thoughts of fear, envy, hatred, etc…but we do not have to allow those thoughts to take up residence in our minds.

Today, what will you allow to come into your mind? It’s your call.  Choose wisely.

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“All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, ‘Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.” ~ Amy Carmichael

“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”  II Corinthians 10:5