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
Moments of Truth Devotional
Learn to walk with Jesus moment by moment each day.
The 365 daily readings in this devotional were developed directly from the sound biblical teaching of Pastor Adrian Rogers. His way of simply stating the truth of Jesus Christ is unparalleled. Page after page you’ll get something new to think about and to talk to God about in your moments with Him.
