The Alcatraz of my Mind 2020

I wrote this blog a couple years ago, and found it fitting today more than ever in 2020.

2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

With this  great scripture in mind, I feel sometimes like I  am serving 60 years to life in the Alcatraz of my Mind. Instead of holding every thought captive obedient to Christ I may wander and become a captive to my  thoughts.  

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In these times my weary brain becomes lost  in the tasks of another anxious day living in this very broken spinning out  of control world leaving me frazzled, weary, and  downright .. pouty. 

Now pouty may be cute when it is  my 4 year old granddaughter, but when it is 63 year old Jeff.. just ask my wife Mary, it's not cute.

So what  do I  do?  I read aloud again 2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

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To be very frank, 2020 a dumpster fire of a year. It is the year of Covid-19, race tensions rivaling the 1960s, anarchist groups like Antifa, and BLM , and civil disobedience all wrapped up in an Election year where the MSM has become the National Enquirer with an agenda that has little to do with reporting the news.  When STORY is more important to the MSM than TRUTH, we have a problem.

So how does 2 Corinthians 10:5 fit in to 2020?  I believe It fits in perfectly.

• My hope is not in man and certainly not the goodness of man.
• My hope is my Savior Jesus Christ not any man
• My hope is in my Creator, not the 2020 elections.  and..
• My hope is my God who is greater than any pandemic panic.

When 2020 shouts "PANIC.. It's the end of the world!".. I must take that panic and make it obedient to Christ. My prayer is to be found faithful and trusting in Him now more than ever.  ​

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This will be my life long process  of returning to  this scripture truth when my anxious, jealous,  lazy, angry, compromised etc etc thoughts occupy the podium in my brain. Christ must be the answer.. He is my hope. So here ya go Jesus.. THANKS!

May God bless  each of you this  day where God's perfect Truth & Love  is  the answer when your thoughts are have you locked in the cell next to mine on the  Alcatraz of  your Mind.

​Jeff

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