“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” (2 Cor. 10:5).
“Those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts.” God wants His redeemed children to have the right kind of thoughts, and He has told us to “let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” This is already positionally true of God’s own, for “we have the mind of Christ,” but God desires us in daily experience to “let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,” “bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,” for it is written of man that “as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” So, “commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.” Can we truthfully say to the Lord, “I hate vain thoughts: but Thy law do I love”? “The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.” “The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.” “In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.”
From my thoughts come my actions;
Shape them, Lord, by Thy Word,
That Christ my Lord and Savior
May in me be seen and heard.
Matt. 15:18-19; Phil. 2:5; 1 Cor. 2:16; Prov. 23:7; 16:3; Psa. 119:113; 94:11; Prov. 12:5; Psa. 94:19.