Every Thought

"And I won't go back to the thought-pattern that my mind is mine alone."

IT IS GIVEN unto us to know He hears our every thought and to live life with this in our thinking. This may sound intimidating to you, but I have made this decision; and it has changed me. He does know our every thought. All the intentions of our heart are in His view with the words we would say but don’t. Both Old and New Testaments confirm this, and we know His Word is Truth. Being aware He knows all and hears all has made us closer, which is His heart’s desire. He is particular about this to each of us individually. How intimate we are with our loving God is because of how humble we are, how much we walk in His precepts, how much we love people. All these are all pieces of why. If we are still giving criticism and being offended by others, in the church and out of it, He will not share as much of Himself.

The other night, I heard His thoughts on a story told in a sermon. Not the sermon itself but on the example given, something that people did in His name. I will not say if they were thumbs up or thumbs down or somewhere in between, but I knew what I heard were not my thoughts. They were His, and He confirmed it later. This is not the first time this has happened. I marvel on it every time. But one thing I have decided, I will not treat His trust lightly. I will not be flippant. And I won’t go back to the thought-pattern that my mind is mine alone. Things in my life forced me to alter how I think. Now, having altered it, to return is to know but pretend ignorance. A much worse thing.

We cannot go backwards, as much as we’d like to sometimes. I am comfortable in one place for eons. He asks me to grow. There are things I need to grow out of still and things I need healing of in my mind. His is the power which will do so and the love which promises it to me. He pulls down the strongholds. This has been taught in opposite, in error. Any idea we are making all the effort goes against Scripture. The apostle Paul covers this clearly in Romans 7 and follows up with hope in Romans 8. “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” he asks in chapter 7 and follows it with, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Jesus is our Healer. Romans 8:1 then says He never condemns us. This is also said in John 3:17.

“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:17)

Condemnation is never healing, but guilt applied. Jesus didn’t come to make us feel guilty but to give us love, peace, and joy in Him. The Holy Spirit’s correction is gentle and kind, patient. You know you are loved but that you must lean on Him to change your thinking and behavior. Sin weights us and pressures us to give up. He brings revelation, an “aha!” moment, if you will. And with it, lightness. He lifted up and carried away all our sins, weaknesses, and distresses (Isaiah 53:4), Jesus doing as a man what no one was able or qualified to do. We follow Him, not desiring just the benefits He’s promised, but our love for Him compels us and affects our behavior and our thinking.

He affects my thinking, and He’s “all into that” to the positive as well. There are things about me that only He knows and He’s reminded me of, which made me laugh. But it is the things that only He knows that I must see and not look away from them, which I bring up to you. I beg you to do the same before Him. Not as chastisement or guilt but as submission. To remember them in His presence without guilt is to make Him Lord. To speak to Him, though He knows all about you, is to mature. To love people in whatever state they’re in, without offering correction, is to be the Father, whose presence, the sweet Holy Spirit, is within us forever. Not to be ignored, not for us to pretend He isn’t listening and doesn’t know us, except when we need something from Him. But to change us for the better, even when at first, we can’t see it.

“For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.” (Psalms 139:4)

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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