Every Thought

"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ"
-2 Corinthians 10:5

I read this passage this morning and loved it! Another translation puts it like this, "We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ". WOW! In essence, that is what our lives should look like everyday. We are supposed to break down anything that stands in the way of letting others know Christ, and sometimes (and by "sometimes", I mean ALL the time) that means breaking down ourselves to where others can tell that we are living 100% for Christ. All of thoughts should be centered around Christ, how gigantic does that sound? How many billion things do we think about in a single day? Lots. And the Bible says that each and every thought should be centered about the Lord. Even trying to think about what that would look like blows my mind. Every thought. I can't even fathom it, and I think that's a good thing. I don't want to be able to understand the Lord (but that's a totally different blog post for some other time).

This is huge at camp, and is going to be crazy huge in Honduras. We are not in Honduras for ourselves, we aren't going to be there for our friends. We are going to be there to spread the Word of our God and bring hope to so many people. In order to do that, our every thought must be on Him. There's a chance we will encounter conflict (if not in Hondruas, it will happen in our world), and we will have to demolish and smash everything that is not of God. We will have to be totally in tuned with God to have the strength and ability to do that.

Therefore, we start to pray now. Our thoughts aren't just supposed to be completely on God when we are at church, or on a mission trip--it's a daily thing. There's no better time than right now to begin to learn how to do this and be intentional about it!