(Note: I have been sick with the flu for the past week. I'm thankful that I now feel well enough to get back to posting for my blog and the rest of my normal activities.)
Today, I'd like to talk about the wonderful freedom that God has given man. This is one of the ways in which we are created in God's image. At the very beginning of the Bible, God says in Genesis 1:26: "...Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
What an amazing privilege and an amazing responsibility. God gives us the ability to act in our world: to care for ourselves and every other living thing. He has given us free will. We can choose to love and follow Him or we can choose to set something or someone else up as our own god.
Choosing God is something that doesn't come naturally. Our natures, because of sin, is to be disobedient. We must learn to focus our minds on God: we must not let other lesser things captivate our attention. II Corinthians 10: 5 tells us, "We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ."
That is our goal every day: to bring our thoughts captive to Jesus. Whenever your mind wanders, capture those thoughts and bring them back to Christ's presence. You'll find that your anxious thoughts shrink and disappear. Your judgmental thoughts are revealed and brought back to God's unconditional love. Confused thoughts are untangled when you seek the simplicity of God's peace.
Isaiah 26:3 assures us, "The steadfast mind You will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You."
Choose God's freedom by capturing your wayward thoughts and bringing them under the control of Christ's Spirit. The peace He'll give you is worth it.
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