When I was born
again, in 1975, one of the first things God taught me was ...
Taking Thoughts
Captive ...
This is God's
antidote to the poison of this world ... and for the lusts of our own flesh!
An example:
A woman I went to
school with, sent me a note along with a Birthday Card ...
In her note, she
told of her grandson who just got married a few months ago ...
She told of her plans
for Thanksgiving and Christmas with her daughter and her son-in-law and her
grandchildren ...
She told of her
husband's activities ...
I have no
grandson, nor daughter, nor son-in law, nor husband ... nor did I have any
plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I was alone ... with no plans at
all ...
IMMEDIATELY
THE HOLY SPIRIT BEGAN SPEAKING THE FOLLOWING WORDS TO ME ...
"You are dead, and
your life is hid with Christ in God."
"That's
right" ... I cried out ...
When other people
look at me, they see no life
... no husband, no children, no grandchildren
But the truth is ... I
am dead, though I live on this earth...
…My life is
hid with Christ ... and they can't see my life when they view me ... I look
like nothing to them … My life is hid from them.
When Christ appears
then I can expect to appear with HIM along with all others who belong to HIM. My life is yet to come, so to speak.
I rejoiced in this
truth from the Holy Spirit.
(If I had not heard
Col. 3 from the Holy Spirit, I think I would have been pulled down by the note
in my Birthday Card.)
Col. 3
... If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set
your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead,
and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall
appear, then shall ye also appear with HIM in glory.
*****
When we view life on
this earth through God's eyes,
we are resurrected from the thoughts (and the lusts) which otherwise plague us.
This is the basic
principle of Taking Thoughts Captive ...
to bring those thoughts into obedience of
Christ, THE WORD ...
As a result, we
rejoice in HIM ...
Joan
Boney