Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things.
If anyone has anything of value like a car or a house, then the insurance company will say to put in alarms to protect our belongings from thieves. Some people go to great lengths to protect their property and even bicycles have sophisticated locks on them now!
The strange thing is, we’re more concerned with guarding our ‘things’ than we are about guarding our minds and our hearts which God says are actually far more important!
Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Guarding our heart can mean guarding our thought life and our emotions. Are we taking measures to protect them I wonder?
Occasionally I’ll hear a loud house alarm go off nearby and I thought, wouldn’t it be good if we could have an alarm bell rigged up in our minds so that when the enemy gives us a wrong thought it immediately gave off a loud warning bell and saying ‘Intruder, lock all doors.’?😊
It sounds funny but in practical terms if we’d learn to recognise an attack of the enemy coming to steal, we’d never let him in, but we don’t always recognise his tactics. We haven’t been guarding our minds and suddenly we’re feeling depressed, defeated, discouraged or fearful. We let the robber in with his wrong thinking and he stole our peace! Anyone identify?
The enemy comes with a thought ‘You’ll never be able to do that, you’re not good enough, it won’t work, you’ll never get well, you’re too old, wrong colour, wrong background’ or some other negative thing! As soon as we have that sort of thought we need to slam the door shut on him and counter him with the word of God. “I’m fearfully and wonderfully made, I can do all things through Christ, God has accepted me and He is restoring my health.’
So this is just a thought provoker today to set some alarms in place in our minds and over our emotions, to protect them and stop the enemy dead in his tracks; to stop and ask ourselves ’Does this thought agree with scripture and Phil 4:8 or not?’ and if not then slam the door on it and remember Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, whose minds are fixed on you.😊
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