There’s a battle that rages inside of us.
As Ephesians 6 tells us this battle isn’t against flesh and blood but against the devil’s schemes. Satan will do anything for us to be insecure, weak, self-conscious, self-absorbed…anything that will take our eyes off Jesus but even more deeply than that take our minds off Jesus.
You know I think it’s easier to guard my eyes from something than it is to guard my mind. I can close my eyes and not see something or I can simply not go somewhere if I don’t want to see something. But my mind…there’s no getting away from my mind and the thoughts it produces.
So as I contemplate how Satan will stop at nothing to make me be insecure and feel like I’m not good enough, God in His unique way has followed that thought with the only way to combat Satan’s schemes and guard my mind is with TRUTH…His Word.
“To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH will set you free.” (John 8:31-32)
And the first thing we’re told to put on in the armor of God in Ephesians 6 is the belt of TRUTH!
Satan wants so badly to hold us captive by our thoughts…by thoughts that make us feel insecure and not good enough but as God’s Word tells us…the TRUTH will set us free from this captivity!
So, if I want to live my life in this freedom, I have to fill my mind with the TRUTH…with God’s Word. By spending time in His Word daily but even deeper than that…hiding it in my heart, memorizing scripture. I am absolutely horrible at memorizing anything (just ask my piano teachers in high school and college LOL) but as a girl I was talking to last night said, “life happens”, and if I’m not ready with my belt of truth on at all times, I’m in a very vulnerable spot for the devil’s schemes to knock me down, hold me captive, and kill me (or at least kill my joy). I don’t know about you but that’s a place I don’t want to be!
Ally Harrington Said:
on November 10, 2011 at 11:28 am
Good stuff Holly! Needed this this morning – your point about its easier to not look than to not think is SO true – thanks for this reminder this morning to stay in His truth and renew my thoughts!