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by Sandy Shaw
The arch fiend dazzled this couple in Eden’s parkland, with false light.
“Where are you?” is quickly followed in Genesis by “Who told you that you were naked?”
Devotional study guides can be challenging. It is interesting which daily Bible reading notes a pastor provides for his people.
“Who told you?” The source of our information is crucial.
What we hear, and go on to believe and accept, can colour and direct the remainder of our lives.
When that empowered and anointed apostle, Paul, wrote to disciples of Jesus Christ, he encouraged them to fill their minds with thoughts that were true and noble, reminding these men and women how they were children of the King.
He taught them to have the right kind of thoughts which lead to acts and actions.
He challenged these believers in Jesus, to think thoughts that were pure and chaste so that their minds would not be defiled, even showing them how they could attain to having the mind of Christ, which really means the outlook or attitude which Jesus would have shown.
Can you imagine a newspaper where it was said that nothing must go in unless it fulfils these conditions?
It is mentally and emotionally and spiritually healthy to guard our mind, and even to filter what we allow into our mind.
What we permit to enter and influence our minds will soon be revealed by the words and language which come from our mouths.
What we say is what we choose to say.
What we do is what we choose to do.
How we feel is often a matter of what we have been thinking.
Try getting angry without first entertaining thoughts of anger. Try becoming sad and down without first harbouring negative destructive thoughts.
“Who told you?” matters!
Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship
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Sandy has a weekly radio talk which can be heard via the Internet on Saturday at 11:40am, New Orleans time, at wsho.com.
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