My small group has started reading “Lies Women Believe” by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. So far it looks like it’s going to be a great book. One of the ways to combat the lies the world tells us is by “taking every thought captive.” God has been convicting me about the sins in my thought life, the lies that I tell myself. One of my friends recently pointed out that when God is having us learn something, we keep coming across the same lesson wherever we are. So this morning in my bible reading time, my Tabletalk magazine was talking about Romans 12:1-2 about presenting our bodies as living sacrifices. It says, “full devotion of ourselves to God is the logical response to all that He has done for us, for nothing less than our time, talents, desires, and possessions could even begin to show our appreciations for His willingness to purchase us from the wrath we deserve for sinning against Him (IThess. 1:9-10). Such devotion means that we think God’s thoughts after Him, refusing to be conformed to the patterns of this fallen world, for if we love what the world loves, we cannot love what our Father loves. And the chief way we learn to deny the world’s ways and embrace the Lord’s will is through the renewal of our minds, which occurs as we study and meditate upon God’s word.”

“For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” Hebrew 4:12-13.