The Daily Guide
Cleansed by the Word
As for you, already you are cleansed ones because of the word which I have spoken to you.
John 15:3 - Wuest's Expanded Translation
An unpleasant scene in a TV drama I was watching left me with mental indigestion the following morning. Your mind can get indigestion just like your stomach can. Instead of living with it I got into praise and worship early and flushed my thinking with God's word. I opened my Bible and drank in God's word.
Your mind is constantly having to deal with what you see, hear and feel. What a job it's got! Your mind is daily filtering, linking, assimilating and compartmentalising things that are going through it. Yet with all this, it does not of itself have a cleansing agent. The mind is not self-cleansing - everything that sticks to the mind detrimentally has to be washed away with an outside agent! Different things bother different people and some things are bothersome to all people. God's word poured through your mind washes out the contaminants. Be cleansed by God's word and let it mentally free you to serve God with all your mind! Mat.22:37.
You've experienced, I'm sure, how the presentations and experiences of life can create in you distressful, distracting or disruptive thoughts. Whenever these thoughts stick to your mind you'll need setting free from them. They'll need washing away from your mind. How can this be done? By the word of God. The word of God is the only effective, mental cleansing agent given to man! Take time apart to come into the presence of God with worship. Open your Bible and set your mind reflecting on a passage of scripture that you sense as significant. Eph.5:26.
Enjoy the washing of God's Word!
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