God asks you to listen and yield to Him willingly
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What’s the difference between God creating the heavens and the earth in the beginning and God creating a clean heart in you? In the beginning, the creation couldn’t say, “No.” You can say, “No.” Now, God is looking for those who will listen to Him and yield to Him willingly. God is looking for you to listen to Him and yield to Him willingly.
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What’s the difference between God creating the heavens and the earth in the beginning and God creating a clean heart in you? In the beginning, the creation couldn’t say, “No.” You can say, “No.” Now, God is looking for those who will listen to Him and yield to Him willingly. God is looking for you to listen to Him and yield to Him willingly.
Sweeping Out the Darkness
Some people have said you can make yourself pure by hunting down every stray thought and locking it down. They say you should react to every thought that isn’t from God, capture it, and bind it. Perhaps you grab them and put them into a box in your mind. Where do these theologians get that idea? It may come from this verse:
and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:5
How do you take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ? If you try to do this with human effort, you’ll make yourself crazy. It’s like trying to NOT think about elephants. The more you try to NOT think about elephants, the more they jump around in your mind. If you don’t like elephants, try NOT thinking about the sin that easily tempts you. You know your sin. I know mine.
You will frustrate yourself trying to sweep darkness out of a room. You must turn on the Light. The two verses before verse 5 tell you more about this spiritual warfare and turning on the Light.
For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
You don’t wage war according to the flesh. You don’t try to sweep out the darkness. You have spiritual weapons with divine power to demolish the strongholds in your mind.
You built strongholds in your mind without consciously thinking about what you were doing. You don’t know what most of those strongholds are yet. They seem like reality to you. You know about some of your strongholds. You know about thoughts that creep in, thoughts the Holy Spirit brings to your attention. You don’t want to entertain those thoughts, but you can’t sweep them out. You know your thoughts. I know mine. The more you try to NOT think about them the more you think about them. They keep popping up.
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