And God saw... that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5
EN 6:5{There is real comfort in knowing that every imagination of the thoughts of the natural heart is only evil continually, because this shows how really He is working in us when we find Him putting and keeping holy things in our minds. We may be quite sure no Godward thought comes natural to us; but His new covenant is, "I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts." The words are very remarkable and far-reaching. We feel that they go to the very depths, that it is our whole mental being which is to be thus pervaded with the incense of consecration; not that it is to be kept only in some inner recess of the heart, and not equally so in the mental consciousness. "Keep this forever in the imagination.”
Such mystery of iniquity within,
That we must loathe our very the'ts, but for the cure
He hath devised the blessed Tree
The Lord hath shown us, that, cast in, can heal
The fountain whence the bitter waters flow.
Divinest remedy whose power we feel,
Whose grace we comprehend not, but we know.