. . . At Every Turn of the Mind

At every turn of the mind we must surrender to Christ. The battle is in the mind, and it is our human nature's desire to turn every thought to ourselves. We must take every thought captive. I find most thoughts battling for self-fulfilment. Most thoughts are my ideas about how to fix something, fix someone, or make myself more 'comfortable.' Before these thoughts are complete I must give them over and let the Spirit give me His thoughts. Self-fulfilment -- read: even self-thinking -- is shallow, substitutionary pleasure and fulfilment, at best. Spirit fulfilment is fullness, freshness, freedom -- and power. Power to impact the world.