GUARD YOUR THOUGHTS
By A. W. TozerMake your thoughts a clean sanctuary.
God reveals to us that our thoughts are a part of us. Someone has said that "thoughts are things,"
and the Spirit is all-seeking and all-hearing and all-loving and pure.Can you imagine a man with malicious and evil thoughts in his heart having companionship with
he loving Holy Spirit?Can you imagine a man bloated with egotism knowing the Holy Spirit in anything like intimacy?
Can you imagine a man who is a deceiver having blessed fellowship with the Holy Spirit? Never!
My friend, if you are habitually given over to thinking and harboring and savoring dirty thoughts,
you are habitually without the communion of the Holy Spirit!Keep your mind pure. Clean out the sanctuary the way old Hezekiah did. They had dirtied up that
sanctuary, so when he had taken over,Hezekiah got all of the priests together. It took them days and days,
but they carried out all of the filth and burned it, threw it over the bank and got rid of it, and then went back
and sanctified the temple. Then the blessed God came and they had their worship again.Our thoughts are the decorations inside the sanctuary where we live. If our thoughts are purified by the
blood of Christ, we are living in a clean room, no matter if we are wearing overalls covered with grease.Our thoughts largely decide the mood and weather and climate within our beings, and God considers
our thoughts as part of us. They should be
thoughts of peace, thoughts of pity and mercy and kindness, thoughts of charity, thoughts of God and the
Son of God --- these are pure things, good things and high things.Therefore, if we would cultivate the Spirit's acquaintance, we must have the control of our thoughts.
Our mind ought not to be a wilderness in which every kind of unclean thought makes its own way.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.