Daily Devotional
How Do You Guard Your Mind?
“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you.”
Proverbs 4:23-25
September 30, 2024
Ponder This
When you go to the airport to travel on an airplane, you have to go through security before you board. At security, you walk through a magnetometer, and you have to get ready: You take out your keys; you take out your phone; you take off your shoes; and you think you’re ready to go through. Then, that alarm starts to beep. So, security asks you, “Would you step back, sir? Do you have anything in your pockets?” You try again, but again it goes off. Then you have to step to the side for a pat down so they can really investigate if you are hiding something.
I wish we could put some of those at the doors of this sanctuary that were designed to detect sin. After I preach, you try to get out, it’d say, “You are not ready. You’ve got something else you need to surrender to Him.” You also need to keep that level of detection for your mind, and you don’t let anything that is not God-glorifying get into the fortress.
Center your mind on the Lord Jesus. Don’t let the devil take away your pure-hearted devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ. Stay in love with Him, and there won’t be any room for those filthy, dirty, wicked, lascivious, lustful, prideful thoughts that bombard us all.
- What are some areas of life where you consume and don’t guard your heart and mind very well?
- What do you do with a thought that is not glorifying to God?
Practice This
Ask a fellow believer to help hold you accountable for keeping your thought life pure.
FOR YOUR GIFT TO THE MINISTRY
Front Porch Moments by Gayle Foster
WITH KEY INSIGHTS FROM HER FATHER, ADRIAN ROGERS
I try to unplug each morning with Jesus with just my rocking chair, my Bible, and a pen.
Having a secret place is very important because I know that Jesus is always there waiting for me. I know where I can find Him! His presence is everywhere, but there are places where it is so thick you can cut it with a knife. You may not even have a front porch, but there is a secret place for you as well. God’s invitations are for anyone who will respond. There is no more important request than the one found in Psalm 27:8: “My heart has heard You say, ‘Come and talk with Me.’ And my heart responds, ‘Lord, I am coming.’”
