Who Bends my Ear?

Have you thought about this?
While relaying the account of Adam and Eve to my granddaughter, my own words dug deep into my spirit as I told her that they listened to the snake instead of listening to God. The snake that meant them harm, compared to God Who is always good to us.
but then the question came to me…
‘But do I!?’
do I listen to the enemy instead of listening to God in times of uncertainty or just in general when I am tempted to turn my ear towards untruths?

Whose voice do I listen to in my mind?

I was listening to an encouraging message by Max Lucado and how he related us to being the Air Traffic Control over our minds and how we have control over the thoughts we allow to land in our minds. We have control over our mental thought traffic and we need to stand sentry over this important area of our lives only allowing positive thoughts to unload their cargo and not negativity.

How important thought management is and it means we have to meditate on God’s Word… he continued saying that there is a lot of things in life we didn’t get to pick starting with our parents but just because you have a thought, it doesn’t mean you have to think it…
If we don’t manage our thoughts, the enemy will attempt to mess with our minds trying to push his thoughts to enter in but the encouraging thing is that as Jesus’ sheep we know that His sheep hear His Voice and we have to be aware of who are listening to
our good God
or the sneaky snake
as my granddaughter has labelled him with a label that suits him because he slithers around especially when we are between asleep and awake with fears and lies trying desperately to infiltrate and implant them into our minds so that we can think them and so that they can take up so much space so that the good thoughts that God gives us to think and the truths from His Word get crammed in a corner or worse still, get bullied out of our minds because that has been his evil plan from the beginning of time.
Scripture shows us what are acceptable thoughts, so if they don’t fit into the category below, best not to think them and only think these thoughts:
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.
Philippians 4:8
and when we think thoughts that are uplifting and pleasing to our Heavenly Father, it will produce the fruit of Holy Spirit in our lives
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control
and we won’t get tempted to
partake of ‘fruit’ that is detrimental to our spiritual health.

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Brenda.ps23©