Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

     Everyone needs to hear the basics all the time.
     Here is one of the basics:
         God's Word is more real 
         Than the way that you feel! 
      And Soldier, that means that when you're feeling gloomy, hurt, angry, anxious - 
all of these always involve demonic help.  Thoughts are shot into your mind and they 
feel like yours.  You hear your own voice in your head and you see scenes played out
on your own stage and it seems so, so original.
     But it did not originate with you.
     There is some pain that we must all go through.  There is grief from deep loss, and
there is hurt from betrayal or desertion.  Many words and events come with a sting
and often a day can seem like a walk through a land mine field.
     But, when the thoughts continue to haunt, they produce emotions because every
thought is a seed in the soul.  That is why Paul teaches so clearly and firmly about the
thought life.
     A believer must learn to identify his thoughts and then he must learn to submit 
and take every thought captive and lead it away.
     We are not allowed to be passive.  The thought life is almost always being 
attacked about the past or about future things that might or might not happen.  How
foolish to loose the present moment because of disobedience.
     The issue here is, can God be trusted?