PIN UP SOME SIGNS!

Proverbs 4:23 (CEB) More than anything you guard, protect your mind, for life flows from it.

Chris has put this sign at the bottom of our stairs to remind him to take his muddy shoes off before he walks through the house. The other day he forgot and walked mud all through on the new carpet! He was not too popular!🤣 🤣

As I looked at his sign it occurred to me that we could all do with some warning signs to remind us to not allow muddy footprints in our minds either.  Thoughts we pick up from the media, or internet or rubbing shoulders with the world, or from the enemy himself, that are contrary to God’s way of thinking or doing life, have a habit of leaving us ‘muddied up’ don’t they! 

We forget sometimes that we serve and belong to a Holy God, who gave His own Son’s life so we don’t have to be slaves to unholiness or its wrong thinking any more. What we see, read and listen to is our choice. Maybe we could do with some signs reminding us who we are and who we belong to! Sometimes I’ll hear God’s still small voice telling me not to read something any more, or not to watch certain things, but we have to be sensitive to His voice and do what He says, don’t we?🙂 Are we listening?

Holy means ‘set apart’. We have the Holy Sprit living in us and He has set you and me apart too. ‘Holy’ Spirit! I wonder if we conveniently forget the ‘Holy’ part of His name sometimes. Wherever we go and whatever we do, watch or read, He is there too and wherever God is, is holy ground! That’s quite a thought!🙂

The uplifting part of that is, we are taking His Holy presence with us into whatever situation we work in, or live in, as well. We bring His peace, His joy, His love, His power to deliver and heal, and His wholesomeness with us wherever we go. 

What sign would you pin up in your thinking? Here’s some I like - ‘Help me remember I am set apart for you Lord’  - ‘I belong to God and He is here with me right now so I have the Greater One living in me.’ -   ‘The forces that are for me are more than the forces that are against me’ because I have the Holy Spirit in me.

So as we go about our day let’s remember to guard our hearts and minds and pin up signs in our thinking where we need to.🙂 And know the Holy Spirit who loves you, is going with you to help, guide, counsel and strengthen you in everything you do. Thank You Lord. Amen.