He Brings My Thoughts into Captivity

This lesson has taken me the longest to learn, as I had learned the wrong things for so long because of the AA cult.

People in that mind control cult are obsessed with what they are thinking.

That's why people drink, usually. A sense of bitterness and frustration dominates the lives of many, and they want something, anything, that can end the hurt and pain.

We do not want to feel bad, yet instead of dealing with the reasons why we feel bad, we just deal with the feelings.

Really, if we think that the weight of the world hangs on us, and how we feel, we are going to be sad and frustrated. If we think that the world revolves around  us, we will be angry and unfulfilled.

Desperate to identify with something, or anything, we will feel bad.

This morning, just this morning, I began to realize that no matter how bad I may feel, what bad thoughts or negative thinking may dominate my reference, I do not have to feel bad about it.

I have been justified forever before God the Father, because of His Son!

While the AA cults forces people to look at themselves, the Grace of God offers us to look at Jesus:

"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12: 2)

Not to ourselves.

We are not supposed to deal with our feelings, and our thinking merely registers what we are bringing into our minds.

So, let us consider another verse:

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (Romans 12: 2)

This transformation takes place . . .as we look unto Jesus!:

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3: 18)

Now we can better understand this passage, too:

"3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled." (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)

So, this morning and every morning after, there is no reason to fear or be frustrated with the upsets in my mind or anyone else

He is a God to me not because of what I am thinking, but what His Son has done and is doing for me.

Hallelujah!