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Our Thoughts — Part 1
During a Bible study I recently attended, the question was asked, “What do you think about?” It is a good question for all of us to consider, and perhaps we should add, “What are we filling our minds with?” Satan has much to fill and corrupt the mind, and we need to be careful what we read and watch.
The Bible gives a great deal of instruction and exhortation on this subject. David wrote, “Thou anointest my head with oil” (Psalm 23:5). Oil in the Bible is always a figure of the Spirit of God. The head anointed with oil would bring before us the need to have our thoughts governed by the Word of God, by the power of the Spirit of God. It is “bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). When I was growing up, I often heard an older brother say, “We should saturate our minds with the Word of God until we think in the language of Scripture.”
How much does the Word of God form your thought patterns and shape your opinions? Tomorrow we will list some Scriptures that are good to keep in mind on this subject.
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