2. IT IS WIMPY TO BE UNDISCIPLINED IN THOUGHT LIFE

The wimp lets his mind travel wherever the devil wants to take it. It is one thing for the Christian to have a new heart. It is quite another for him to have a new mind. Someone has aptly said, “The idle mind is the devil’s play ground.”

Thoughts are like arrows that seem to come out of nowhere. They strike the mind, and if meditated on, can put one into a major tail spin.  Oppression and depression can be directly related to the accusative and negative thoughts that are directed by demonic forces at the minds of God’s people. Many feel condemned and useless. They fail to realize that the enemy wants to build a stronghold in their thought life. Many are plagued with unclean thoughts. They fail to understand that in the power of the name of Jesus we can take these thoughts captive and destroy them.

The godly discipline of the mind is an important doctrine in Scripture. The thought life is the greatest battle ground of the Christian. To understand this and take appropriate Scriptural action is one of the great keys to living victoriously. The Apostle Paul addresses this subject in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”

The wimp sinks in despair. He is rail-roaded by the devil’s freight train, carrying tempers, moodiness, rejections, hurts, prickliness, negativity and all types of lusts and worldliness. The mature Christian realizes he is a soldier. He goes to war against the enemy who tries to possess his thought life. He knows that he has weapons to take captive every single thought and bring them into obedience to Christ.

Have you been fighting it out with the devil over some attack on your thought life? If not, there is a chance you are losing in this vital area of your life. We are either acting or re-acting according to our thought life every single day of our lives. Ephesians 6:11 exhorts us to “Put on the whole amour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” There is no excuse to fail in this area. We must fight. If we do not fight we will surely fail.

Peter exhorts us in 1 Peter 13, “Therefore gird up the loins of your mind.” The word gird is a military term meaning “to arm your mind with artillery to deal with every type of thought train that enters your mind.”