Yesterday I had two calls within a half hour of eachother that I did not answer, because they came up “spam risk”.
If it had just been one I would have not thought much of it, but when the second one came up my son asked who it was (probably because I don’t ignore calls often), and I said “Spam risk” and added “of course I’m not answering when it comes up like that.”
Immediately after I said that, I thought to myself that I wish all the thoughts that are presented to our minds came with this kind of label.
You know the ones:
The fears.
The lies.
The attacks on our identities.
The icky thoughts that lie to us about others sometimes.
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Wouldn’t it be handy if we had a spam-thought filter?!
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“Ahhh but you do,” He whispered to my heart.
You just have to use it.
And to use it you have to slow down for a moment.
You can’t just “answer any call.”
You can’t just entertain any thought.
You must “… capture rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.” (from 2 Cor. 10:5)
when these thoughts come in-
think of them as 💥 SPAM- 💥
then use that acronym to remind yourself what to do:
💥 Stop.
💥 Pray.
💥 And
💥 Meditate on the Word.”
His wisdom in this truly stopped me in my tracks.
Who else needs a SPAM filter on their thoughts?
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“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 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 10:3-5 NIV
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