2 Corinthians 10:5
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.
Dear friend,
As I sit here trying to type this morning, my mind is everywhere. I'm bouncing back and forth from the keyboard to the TV, wondering what's on the news and thinking about the weather. Wandering the internet aimlessly sucked in by Facebook statuses and caught up in what my wife so fondly calls the "email fog" or "internet fog". You know what I'm talking about, where your eyes stare intently at the screen in front of you, face expressionless and mouth hanging there open. My thoughts race a millions miles a second completely out of control and here I sit captive to my thoughts, unable to focus. Idle. Unproductive. It's supposed to be the other way around! Can you relate?
I'm to be taking my thoughts captive and make them obedient to Christ. Did you notice that the verse says "we take captive every thought"? It doesn't say some, or just those related to our sin. Every thought! I need to send all these distractions packing so that my focus can be on the Lord. Any argument or right that I think I may have that is contrary to the knowledge of God is to be destroyed. None of these things bring glory to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Take captive your thoughts today. Pull yourself away from the distractions and pray for Jesus to give you the strength and wisdom to recognize those idle, unproductive and sinful thoughts and turn them over to God. We have both the assurance of answered prayer (John 16:24) and the assurance of victory (1 Corinthians 10:13)!
In Christ,
-Robert