I’ve sat down to write this part of the series about 17 times. And I haven’t posted one word yet.
Maybe it’s because writing about what goes on in your head is like trying to see ahead in a fog. I find thinking about thoughts one of the hardest things to do… those well-worn neural pathways make looking at each thought, its origins, its logical conclusion so sub-conscious. So the neural pathway becomes an 8-lane LA Freeway and you’ve missed 5 exits before you realize too late.
Oh the challenge to fit every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5), it’s so hard to do when the freeway to defeatism is your usual route. When driving down the highway of insecurity is so familiar you don’t even remember driving it. When loneliness or the pride of individualism are your quick drive to answers.
When I read about the helmet of salvation, God whispers to me, “Don’t let anything get through to your head, without it passing through the salvation mindset.”
I need to change the roads my thoughts travel. Heck, I need to change the city I live in. Get off those old roads entirely and move to a new part of town. New towns with easy avenues and beautiful vistas. A Godly perspective, where the road is easy and what you carry is light. Where the driver is God and you’re a friend in the passenger seat. Where the focus is less on the roads and the destination, but who you get to travel with.
Those are the roads I want my mind to travel on. What a great incentive to guard my mind with the salvation I find in Christ.
These are my thoughts from Ephesians 6… A series inspired by a moment where I asked God to protect my heart, my family and my loved ones. In that moment, I strongly felt Him challenge me: “I’ve given you all the armour you need, but it’s useless in a pile on the ground. Pick it up. Put it on.”
Clare Gageler 