The Power of Biblical Meditation | Day 2 | December 29, 2025

 Owning Your Thought Realm

Your thought realm is a vast field of activity. Thoughts arise from your body, your memories, your environment, spiritual influences, and the Holy Spirit Himself. Every day, you choose which ones to meditate on and which ones to shun.

Romans 12:2 reminds us that transformation begins with the renewing of your mind. When you allow the Holy Spirit to guide your thinking, you’ll find peace and clarity. But when your unrenewed mind rules, it easily entertains worry, temptation, and confusion.

The renewed mind delights in what is good, pure, and lovely (Philippians 4:8). It’s drawn to truth and righteousness through God's word. The unrenewed mind feeds on worldly ideas and old habits. The former leads to godly convictions, and the latter leads to misappropriated faith, which brings fear, doubt, anxiety, worry, etc.

You have the power to decide what stays in your consciousness; what stays in your consciousness determines the direction of your life. Every thought is a seed that needs your attention to grow. Choose the right seed, the power is in your hands. Any thought or imagination that is not consistent with what the Word of God says about you should be cast down.

As you begin owning your thought realm, you’ll notice how your emotional life stabilizes and your faith grows stronger.

Scripture:
Romans 12:2

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Unwavering Conformity | Day 3 | July 4, 2025

Houses of Prayer; Houses of Light In anticipation of temple construction, David offers a remarkable prayer, a prayer that serves as a template or model for each of us as God's stewards. The prophet Isaiah later refers to that very temple as God's 'house of prayer' (Isa 56:7). And David himself anticipates that reality, declaring in Psalm 18:6, 'In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.' A house of prayer. In Psalm 18:28, David uses imagery that permeates Scripture, saying, 'My God turns my darkness into light.' An unmistakable message. A house of light. Pastor John Timmer relates a simple story about a house in need of light: “Once upon a time a man lived in a house without a window. Naturally, it was very dark inside his house. One day he said to himself, 'I'm sick and tired of living in a dark house. I want to get rid of the darkness. I want light i...
Read more

Unwavering Conformity | Day 2 | July 3, 2025

Living with the Consequences Repeated covenant-breaking has serious consequences. The flipside is that covenant-keeping has positive outcomes. Notice in this passage the central importance of Torah (law) and Israel's chronic recurrent problem of slipping back into all forms of idolatry. Modern Western society is permeated to its core with idolatry, with one particular ism extending its grasp beyond any other - materialism. Unchecked materialism has so infiltrated Christianity and other religious systems that it goes virtually unnoticed by the majority. Unless humanity, led by people of faith, can turn a corner quickly, the spiritual, interpersonal and societal consequences in today's interconnected world will hold us captive in ways ancient Israelites could have never conceived.  Following is a quotation from author, educator and environmentalist Bill McKibben's call for communities of faith to return God to the center of life: “Consumption is an issue uniquely suited for f...
Read more

Unwavering Conformity | Day 1 | July 2, 2025

  Equitable Distribution of Resources God told Moses that the promised land was to be distributed according to the relative size and needs of the various tribes: 'To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one' (Nu 26:54). In this way, socioeconomic equity was ingrained in the DNA of Israel's agrarian economy. Biblical scholar Craig L. Blomberg observes, 'The ideal contrasts markedly with arrangements in other feudal kingdoms near Canaan in that day, in which by far the more common pattern was the concentration of vast tracts of land among the royal and aristocratic elites, leaving a majority of the people in considerable poverty.' Similarly, when we look to the New Testament, the book of Acts provides an outstanding example of how the equitable distribution of resources became an important characteristic of the early church (see Ac 2:42-47; 4:32-37). Today the same principle should govern our financial decisions. Second Corinthian...
Read more