From the moment we awake our thoughts come alive and buzz like some annoying fly. We think of so many things at one time.
Our thoughts zigzag from driving to work to being at work and wondering what we will do at the end of the day. We muse on obligations and demands that have to be met and we regret the things we didn't (or did) do yesterday. Our thoughts remind us we are hungry and need a shower before leaving home. Just as the body is stirred by our thoughts and so is our emotions that can make us from feel bright and confident to downright dismal and depressed in a mere second or two. Who needs the traffic problems on the freeway when some of us have a multi-lane back up of thoughts jammed in our head?
It says in Psalms 94:11: "The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity." (KJV).
Yes, it is true that many of our thoughts are just that - empty and futile. What a comfort considering if we acted on every thought we will be in a great deal of trouble!
And as any believer knows the mind is where most of the battles are fought. Thoughts will come unbidden from the world, the flesh and the Devil. That is why the promise of God giving us a sound mind is everything to discern what is good and godly from that which is sensual and demonic. Our thoughts should never control us but only the Holy Spirit who speaks truth to guide and instruct our conscience. His thoughts are always higher and more wonderful. A mind stayed on Him is a mind at peace (Isaiah 26:3).
The key to a healthy mind is what is really going on in the heart. If God is the sole owner of our hearts then it will generate thoughts that are centered on Him. Whenever our thoughts are being assaulted by doubt, lust or some other troubling notion we must ask Him to search our heart (Psalms 139:23).
We can go into over drive in binding the devil or doing something to get our mind to think rightly but often God is speaking to us about something deeper and more troubling that is causing our minds to froth and foam like an unsettled sea. When we are troubled in our minds we must sit still long enough for God to speak to our hearts. His peace will break through the roaring in our heads and calm our anxious spirit.
Some are afraid of hearing what God may say and only just want the thoughts to go away. But thoughts can become a pattern and repeat itself in response to things that are difficult in our lives to understand. Thoughts can form an argument which in turn becomes a stronghold that walls out the Spirit of truth.
So tell God what is troubling you. Speak to Him privately of those hidden and secret thoughts that He knows already and let Him shine a light in the darkness. You will be pleasantly surprised how being transparent and honest can bring a lasting freedom. It's the very thing the Devil cannot stand when you come in the light of His presence.
And our honest cry to live and think holy thoughts will only serve to assault Satan's mind - a darken, lie infested mind - that has no power in our thoughts.
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