You used to be far from God. Your thoughts made you his enemies, and you did evil things. But his Son became a human and died. So God made peace with you, and now he lets you stand in his presence as people who are holy and faultless and innocent.
Colossians 1: 21 - 22
Human beings judge themselves by their actions, but God judges us by our thoughts! We consider ourselves guiltless if we only think evil thoughts but never act them out. The problem is that God says that committing the sin of adultery begins with the thought that precedes the deed even if the deed is never done.
It is by our thoughts that we become enemies of God and our actions, of course follow. We are certified enemies of God before we ever do one thing that is a sin, because our minds have already been there before us!
You will know that you have stopped sinning when you never think about it again! Sin begins by pondering it in your heart! You may not be a murderer or a thief, but you have had the thoughts that every murderer or thief has had before they crafted the evil deed.
Romans 12:2 says that when you give your heart to Jesus, He will “change the way you think.” Then it says you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to Him!
“Lord Jesus, I need You to change the way I think every day. Help me to never stand on the doorstep of sin because of what I think. May all my thoughts give Glory to You now and forever. Amen.”
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