Daily Delight Devotional – Saturday, September 9 2023

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

– Matthew 9:4, KJV

There is no more searching measure of your life than your thoughts. Your thoughts express your inner person – your motives, desires, aims, feelings and the principles that govern your life. Your thoughts and your will express and control your soul. Your thoughts comprehend all of the real you. They include your desires, your prayers, your attitudes, your purposes and goals, your joys, your loves, your faiths, your determination, your intent and your motives.

All you are and all you do is expressed by your thoughts. Almost always your actions express only part of your motives, desires and inner nature. You may love God or others either more or less than you express. Your words are so very important but of even deeper importance are your thoughts.

The Holy Spirit is an active part of your heart (Hebrews 4:12-13). When God sees you, He sees more than your words and actions. He sees you through and through. God’s grace is given to transform you through and through. It is your thought life that moulds you into Christ’s image or into the image of the world and Satan. It is your thought life that proves the extent to which the Holy Spirit fills you. In your thought life, you respond to the work of the Spirit that can lead to the transfiguration of your whole character and soul into the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Insight: It is out of the abundance of your heart and your thought life that your words come forth. It is out of the abundance of your heart that your life is built.

Prayer: Father, purify my thought-life to create goodness in the name of Jesus.

Further Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 4:5
Daily Bible Reading: 2 Peter 2: 1-5