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“As he thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7).
This verse is talking about someone who wants to deceive us, and who may appear friendly, but underneath does not really like us. However, the truth of the verse applies to all of us, for our thoughts tell us what we are by nature. I well remember reading about a little girl growing up in a Christian home, and to whom the Bible was read every day. She had accepted the Lord as her Savior and wanted to please the Lord Jesus. One day she came to her mother and said, “Mother, I don’t want to do bad things, but I have a naughty ‘think’.” We can understand what she meant, for although she did not want to do naughty things, bad thoughts came into her mind from time to time.
Even if we know the Lord Jesus as our Savior, we still have the old sinful nature in us, and it keeps wanting to make us sin. It is important for us to ask the Lord to help us to push those wrong ideas out of our minds, and to think about the Lord Jesus instead. Sometimes repeating a verse to ourselves will help, or starting to sing a hymn that we have learned. We can choose what we think about, and we do not have to allow wrong thoughts to dominate our minds.
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