I often let my thoughts run away from me and I can get caught up in believing lies that Satan tries to make seep into my brain. Even now as I am writing this, I am over thinking each of my thoughts and wondering how what I am saying will come across to each person and if I should share this or that about myself and my life and/or thought processes. 

I think it is fair to say that at some point we have all let our thoughts go to places that are not honoring to Christ whether that be negative self-talk, thoughts of lust, or hate, or coveting, you name it, our thoughts go there. 

For me the thoughts that are not honoring to Christ are the ones where I think that I am less than what God has created me to be, or that I have made a mistake beyond forgiveness.

Recently, I discovered a verse that has become a great tool for combatting these thought patterns. 

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

The last bit has really stuck with me and been my way of facing the thoughts that do not bring glory to Christ head on and thinking of what it means for those things to become obedient to Christ. 

Sometimes, when these negative thoughts come along, it is easy to think of a truth from scripture to combat it, or to think of a way to make it honoring to Christ. 

Other times I don’t know what to do with it, but I pray that God will reveal it to me. 

And various other moments, I don’t even have the capacity to do that, and I just write it down and come back to it later. 

I can’t tell you yet that it is a magic bullet fix (and I don’t believe that such a thing exists), and I don’t know what sort of difference it is making at this point, but what I can tell you is that I know that becoming more focused on and obedient to Christ will cause a change in whatever area of your life you apply it to. 

So, I encourage you to take those thoughts captive and find ways to make them obedient to Christ with me as we move together on a journey toward becoming more like Christ each day.