Close the Screen Door!
Beloved, do not put your faith in every spirit… I John 4:1 (AMP)
• Mosquitoes biting. . .
• Flies humming. . .
• Squirrels nesting. . .
If you don’t close the screen door, anything could fly or
walk in. Once it gets inside—well, you might have a hard time getting rid of it.
Shut that Screen Door!
It would be great to have a screen door protecting
our thoughts. True, we cannot always control our thinking, but the screen is a
figurative symbol to remind us to identify what’s trying to get into our heads
at the forefront. It’s a way for us to stop and think about what we’re thinking
about. In other words:
It might be crawling around on the screen, but
you don’t have to open the door, and let it
fly in.
An
unguarded mind is fertile ground for the devil to plant his evil ideas. Once
his ideas take root, they can develop into strongholds. Once that happens, we now
have a full-grown situation.
God
said to cast down every imagination that exalts itself against the knowledge of
God. (II Corinthians 10:3-5) We have to use
our faith and follow God’s instructions on how to get loose from this evil
grip. We have to fight to get our thoughts back in line with God’s Word. The
best way to do that is to actively counteract wrong thinking with what God says.
We wouldn’t ignore unwanted insects and
animals in our house, the same is true with these festering thoughts. Things
will only get worse if something isn’t done about it.
That’s why I’m select-minded, not open-minded. I’m learning to select what I
will open my mind to. On the other hand, we should not be so close-minded
that new and different ideas can’t get in. However, if those new and different ideas
are contrary to the Word of God—
Close that Screen
Door!
©
2015
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