Mark spoke tonight on ‘TETIC’ – ‘taking every thought into captivity’, based on 2 Cor 10:5. This way of thinking can transform how we live and needs to be applied to every area of our lives (friendships, marriage, work life, home life, spiritual life.) It’s easy for us to be distracted in our thoughts (even during church services!) and our thoughts often reveal our hearts. We need to accept that God knows all our thoughts, but our part is to exercise control over our thought life, for it is out of this that all actions spring.
God’s Word has to be the guide as to what we should think (see Phil 4:8). We have to train ourselves to think according to God’s Word, refusing to entertain thoughts which are contrary to this. Doubt and disobedience must be reined in; we have to take these thoughts captive before they can develop into stubborn disobedience and wilful rejection of God’s Word. Rom 12:1-2 reminds us that our thinking must be transformed; we must not be conformed to the world, thinking in the way that it says is acceptable. We must get rid of the old way of thinking and adapt to a new way of thinking.
Thinking is not just something theoretical that has no effect on our everyday lives. Thinking dictates how we live, what we say, what we do. It’s worthwhile to take every thought captive to Christ!
