God does not and will not think evil! I had to ask you this
question to be sure you know who you are in Christ Jesus. Please come with me
as we open the scriptures.
Proverbs 23:7 affirms that as a man ‘thinketh in his heart,
so is he’. So is he! Not, so he will be! He that thinks evil is evil. ‘Herein
is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment:
because as he is, so are we in this world’ (1 John 4:17). God expects you and I
to be as he is while we are in this world, that is to be people who do not
think evil in their hearts. Why?
You can hear God more clearly when he speaks to you if your
mind is not polluted because one of the ways God speaks to his children is
through their thoughts. Evil imagination is one of the two reasons why God
destroyed humanity during the time of Noah. He ‘saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually’ (Genesis 6:5).
Unfortunately, there are many people that think evil in this
present world, including born-again Christians. They can’t think straight for
one hour!
Listen friends,’ deceit is in the heart of them that imagine
evil’ (Proverbs 12:20). Bro Yinka, what are you saying? You are a deceitful man if
your thought process is continually evil. I was born in the part of the world
where as a courtesy you invite visitors to eat with you when they visit at a
time when you are eating. Many times, the invitation is deceitful. For if you
happen to invite a man who is truly hungry, your heart begins to criticize him
as soon as he heavily descends on your food, wondering if the man doesn’t have
common sense to know his limit. You are grudging within you as your guest takes
the fattest meat in your meal! As the Amplified Bible states in proverbs 23:7, Eat
and drink you say to him, yet your heart is not with him (but you are grudging
the cost). Many times, when people do what seems good to you, they do it with
ulterior motives.
John the Baptist eats food, and we are told that he eats
locust and wild honey (Mark 1:6), but I suppose John never eats in people’s
houses when invited, so they labelled him as a man that hath a devil (Mathew
11:18). Jesus eats in their houses when invited, and as they watch him eat, the
evil thoughts of their heart were… ‘Behold a man gluttonous, a winebibber” (Mathew
11:19). Aw! why would you invite him to dine with you if you really don’t want
him to express himself? Oh, ‘the human heart is the most deceitful of all
things, and desperately wicked’ (Jeremiah 17:9 NLT).
I know there are many born-again Christians whose hearts are
predominantly filled with the strangest thoughts that are contrary to God.
Do you think evil? Are your thoughts continually evil? You
can be set free today if you are already a born-again Christian! Ask your
father to liberate your mind from the contaminations that are prevalent upon
your heart. Then, going forward, take positive steps to renew your mind. Following
the underlisted suggestions may be helpful:
1.
Always say what you mean regardless! (James
2:12)
2.
Renew your mind constantly. Take a cue from Philippians
4:8 about the kind of things you should think on.
The Lord bless you richly.
