Free To Thrive! Day 7--- A Clean Thought Life

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5

Getting real about sin involves examining your thought process. Questions like, “What do I think about on a daily basis and how are these thoughts leading me towards freedom?” are crucial to ask. Overlooking your thought process is easy to do. This occurs anytime you give little consideration to the constant stream of thoughts flowing through your heart and mind.

The Apostle Paul recognized the importance of a clean thought life. In 2 Corinthians 10:5, Paul provides two instructions for reaching and maintaining a clean thought life.
•Demolish: The first step to a clean thought life involves demolishing arguments and pretensions. Three key words are crucial to understand.
oDemolish means to crush or destroy.
oArguments means reflections, considerations, and in some translations is rendered imaginations.
oPretension gives the idea of an aspiration that has yet to be reached.
A good summary of Paul’s instructions becomes--- destroy or crush reflections, considerations, imaginations, or aspirations in your life that are false according to God’s standard of truth.

•Take captive: The second step to a clean though life involves taking captive every thought that goes through your mind. This involves one crucial step.
oTake captive means to overcome or overpower.
A good summary of Paul’s instruction becomes--- overcome or overpower every thought that goes on in your heart and mind and make those thoughts obedient to Jesus Christ.

Wow! What an overwhelming task lies ahead. However, for women, this is an important task. Women need to demolish and take captive impure thoughts because women struggle with allowing their minds to be a cesspool for sin. This occurs when women allow their minds to go unchecked thus creating an unfiltered mind.

An unfiltered mind is a dangerous trap that always leads to captivity. An unfiltered mind provides countless hours of daydreaming, imagining, and wondering what it might be like if. Women often daydream, imagine, or wonder about a life that is not their own. The daydream might involve a different husband, a past boyfriend, an unfulfilled dream, or a different set of life circumstances.

Freedom occurs when you regularly demolish and take captive these thoughts and make them obedient to Jesus Christ. In a sense, when you turn on the filter of Jesus Christ and allow Him to say what thoughts can stay and what thoughts must go! The process of demolishing and taking captive is a life-long process. You will never be able to check this one off your list. As you demolish and take captive your thoughts, you will experience freedom as you rid your life of wrong thoughts and replace them with right thoughts.

Question--- Do you daydream about a life that is not your own?