The mind has a strong proclivities and affinities for most things you don’t want it to retain.
No thanks to the “Adamic” nature that tend hold onto evil than good.
Many have queried why it is difficult to have a firm control over their thought?
You may not be able to control what enters your mind, but you can control what you think or mediate upon. May I tell you that it takes a deliberate and diligent effort to renew the mind.
A dirty mind is like a magnet and a metallic object, the metal can only be separated from the magnet by bridging it with a nonmetallic object or you widen the distance between them. The nonmetallic object here is the word of God. It is only the word of God that can separate the bond with a defiled mind.
Here is another analogy to describe how best to renew your mind.
The mind is like a cup full of dirty water and you need to do away with the dirty water, but you can not turn it upside down. Now remember that sand is heavier than water and as such will displace water, when you gradually pour the sand in the cup, it gradually displaces the content in the cup. Displacing the dirty water is not something that will happen suddenly, except you turn it upside down. The time it takes to displace the water depends amount of dirty water in the cup.
So also is the heart, the only thing that can displace dirty or negative thought is the word of God. No other cleansing agent can cleanse and get rid of dirty mindset like the combination of the blood of Jesus and the word of God. So keep pouring the word of God in your heart by reading and mediating on the word. Before you know it, your mind is renewed of the old thoughts.
Know this for sure, there is no fast rule to overcoming dirty thoughts other than filling your heart with the word of God. Sometimes you hear people say that I have given my life to Jesus, but I still have evil mindset, it is either you have not ask for sanctification of heart or fill up the void in your mind with the word of God. That is why you need to be loaded with the word of God. Your mind can never be formated, but it can be reconfigured and that is only by the word of God.
The amount of time it takes, depends on the amount of dirty stuff in your heart. You didn’t accumulate the dirty stuff one day, so thinking that you will eradicate them one day will take a miracle. The thoughts will still flash to your mind, but you cover or displace the thoughts with the word of God any time it shows itself. That is why you can’t afford to be empty at this point in time.
You also need to daily “guard your heart for out of it are the issues of life”. Proverbs 4:23.
You can’t be watching or listening to defiling things and expect a renewal of mind, No, it doesn’t work that way.
If you watch a movie for 2 hours and there be a 20 seconds of obscene or pornographic scene, believe you me years to come, you may have forgotten about the whole story, but the 20 seconds scene will remain in your memory, this is because the mind tend to hold on to bad images than the good. This is one of the reasons why you need to diligently guard your heart and be careful with what you let in. Some stuffs does not come out with the ease at which they enter the mind.
You have the right to renew and guard your heart.
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