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Keep a Watch Over Our Thoughts!

“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” --Proverbs 23:7

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. is a book based on Dr. King's speeches and writings. "I went to high school on the other side of town," he once said, "to the Booker T. Washington High School. I had to get the bus in what was known as the Fourth Ward and ride over to the West Side. In those days, rigid patterns of segregation existed on the buses so that Negroes had to sit in the backs of buses . . . I would end up having to go to the back of that bus with my body; but every time I got on that bus, I left my mind up on the front seat. And I said to myself, 'One of these days, I'm going to put my body up there where my mind is.'”

And he did.

Our lives always end up where our minds are. If our brain thinks depressed thoughts, dirty thoughts, or bitter thoughts, that's what we'll become. How important to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

Today take every thought captive for Christ.

Our defeat or victory begins with what we think; and if we guard our thoughts, we shall not have much trouble anywhere else along the line.
Vance Havner