April 5 – Guarding the Mind
Unless our heads are protected in war, we can die instantly if attacked on the head. When a soldier dresses for battle, the helmet was the last piece of armor to go on, in preparation for war, last, but not the least. If a person wears a bulletproof vest, but has no headgear and is shot in the head, every other piece of armor was useless. If our heads are hurt, we cannot even think or pray. Everything starts in the mind.
Swami Vivekananda said, “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary.”
Our thoughts are the most important key to our spiritual warfare in this life. When we watch our thoughts, the enemy of our souls cannot use fiery missiles and they cannot not lodge in our thoughts and set us on negativity.
How can we practically guard our minds: Here are a few points:
Renew our minds daily. Our minds are battlefields for negative forces. They constantly put thoughts into us or we ourselves loosely feast on lust, greed, pamper our flesh. Surrender in meditation to God and ask Him to take over. Read the Holy Book and let its truths work afresh in you. Listen to worship songs, sing, pray, listen to a message, a sermon, read a spiritual book. All these renew our minds
Resist all fearful wrong thoughts, rebuke them loudly. Reject fear and doubt. Then our minds become more insulated against the diabolic suggestions of negativity and all traps and lures. Guard your minds from excessive influences that cause us to act in ways that would trigger more negativity and wrong. Meditate on what is good, lovely, true, positive and worship. Worship brings in the glory of God and such fire! “The Bible says, “Guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:7).
Meditate on the Word, it is an act of faith between themselves and God…, not a ritual, but a relationship. Do it.
When we think rightly, things fall into place automatically and there is no battle we cannot face in this world...
Rita F. Kurian
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