‘As a man thinks in his own heart, so is he.’ Pro. 23:7
To counteract the entrance of millions of illegal immigrants into the US, President Trump signed orders to send 1500 troops to secure the southern border.
The American people have suffered in different ways from those of discontent who have come here illegally.
Without upholding the laws set for all people a nation cannot stand.
Such conditions are an analogy for what I call “Invasion of the Mind.”.
This invasion shapes our character and the persons we become.
Our Senses and Our Devices
Our God-given senses are the means whereby we watch and listen to what is available.
In this century, the invasion has become even more detrimental. The media is a common influence coupled with our devices to shove all things into the secret places of our minds and hearts – shaping individuals, families, neighborhoods, cities, states, countries, and the world. We are more connected – nations to nations – than ever before.
Many children are allowed to watch and listen to anything they choose without knowing how they will be affected. And when they come to a point in life where their choices have produced a negative outcome, they are unable to accept correction.
They are happy with their own choices and do not understand why others cannot be happy with them.
For centuries, the world and its atmosphere has been invaded with such images and words that has changed the overall landscape and the appearance of nations that have become more and more divided, from each other, even as within.
Inner Transformation
With the knowledge of what is happening all over the world, we are continually receiving data and adding to the data in our own way to the files of our knowledge base.
Our culture is continually changing by the invasion that continues.
What is the answer to this dilemma that seems unstoppable?
Restoration
We must restore the ramparts that have been torn down.
We must consider how we are personally susceptible to this invasion, agree that we have been experiencing this phenomenon, and admit this as a need to be addressed.
We, as Christians at least, must appeal to our heavenly Father to reveal His Commander-in-Chief to us, our Lord Jesus Christ – to whom He has given all authority and power. In His name, we pray for them to send the Holy Spirit and His Sword – His powerful Word to guard our minds, our senses, our knowledge of Him, His truth, and His plans for us. We must, by His mighty power, take captive our thoughts in obedience before Him. (2 Cor. 10:5)
We must gird up our minds and examine our thoughts in relation to His Word.
This is only an alien country for God’s children. We are blessed to be a citizen while we still have the freedom to know from His Word the protection and promises for the life He has planned for us, but we are here in a holding pattern, in preparation for that eternal country that is promised to us for eternal life.
God’s Words are sentinels, standing guard on the wall of our minds as watchmen against the enemy’s entrance from all borders.
Submitting to His Guarding and Girding our Minds
To know His plans for us, we must admit our need for guarding and girding our minds, submit our minds to Him and commit to the direction of His Spirit and Word.,
He appeals to us by His great mercies to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice to Him. (Rom. 12:1-2)
Our bodies are the housing for all He created by which He would reveal Himself – through our faculties He speaks to us by His Word and in the power of His Spirit.
They are effective to do all in us that He wants to do – creating in us the image of His Son who is the express image of our heavenly Father.
Is anything I am saying foreign to you? If so, please take the Bible in your hands and read as if you have never read it. Ask our Father for His Holy Spirit to make His Word your guard for your mind and your life – and your soul that is eternal.
Guard your mind in everything you see and hear, touch and handle.
Ask these questions of every word and image. Good or bad, they will find a place in your heart and take over your life.
Is this precious to our Father, from His mind and heart to mine to draw me closer to Him?
Is this from Him to keep the world’s thinking from entering?
Is this good for me and for those I love?
Will this enable me to love Him and those who love me?
Will this bring unity in my thinking with His and my family?
Will these thoughts be those He wants me to share with others?
Will these thoughts, images, and sounds mold me into His image and prepare me for His eternal glory?
Praise Him that He knows where we are. He knows our thoughts and the power of His Spirit and words that conquer, arrest, and remove those invading thoughts and images and enable us to live joyfully with Him.
Pray for His Spirit of Truth to guide you into all truth, for conviction of sin for how you have opened your mind to illegal thoughts, and His goodness will bring you to repentance, reconciliation, renewal, and blessed fellowship with Him. Through you He will reveal the power of His presence and truth to others.
Gracious Father, we are desperate children, captive to the world’s thinking, its devices, its ideologies. We need your resources, your power, your orders for our protection from those who would remove your grace and truth that protect us. Restore your walls, your Words, your standards, and bring to fruition the life you planned for us through Christ our Lord. Reveal Christ, your Son, as the means for our liberty from those who enter to spy out and destroy the freedom you have given us in Him. Bring the power of your church – the body of Christ — to unity in Him to set the standards you have placed upon us, and through us to the world. This is our only means to experience the love, joy, and peace you give us. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
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