Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Savior

These lyrics from a song by Hillsong United got stuck in my head. Day and night, I was singing this, only sometimes out loud. I changed a word in it inadvertently. I sang “where my faith is without borders”—over and over and over again.  One day I heard the song on the radio and heard them sing “my trust is without borders” and my first thought was they must be wrong. Right! The people who wrote the song,  sang the song, and made it famous, got the words wrong. I held onto some of that thinking until I got home and looked up the lyrics and realized I had been wrong. By this time, however, I had sung that song so many times that it was hard to break the habit of saying faith instead of trust. Not really such a big deal, but it made me think of other times when I am wrong in my thinking and don’t realize how deeply ingrained in me that thinking is.

I think that sometimes, my approach to God’s Word is a little like that. Perhaps I hear someone teach on a particular passage, or perhaps I hear that preaching from other people over the years and I accept it as true. However, when I read something in the Bible that doesn’t jive with that teaching, sometimes my first thought is “well, I must be reading it wrong,” or maybe God is wrong. It takes a while for my thinking to move from the actual reading to accepting that perhaps the teachings weren’t spot on and I have believed wrongly.

The way we think about something, especially if we think the thoughts over and over again, becomes so ingrained in us that it is hard to see the thinking as wrong sometimes. When confronted with the truth, we tend to defend our position rather than consider we might be wrong.

The importance of lining our thoughts up with truth is critical to our successful journey on this earth. We are told that we need to be “bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (I Corinthians 10:5).

I think one thing I have learned in this healing journey is that I can’t think wrongly about God’s Word and have His promises work in my life the way God intended them to work. I have to bring every thought captive and ask, does it line up with the Word of God or not? If the doctor says you have a congenital problem here, but God says I am fearfully and wonderfully made, which comment will play again and again in my mind until I accept it as rock, solid truth?

Lord, I know Your Word to be what preserves my life, what sustains me, what strengthens me and heals me. I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on your laws. Thank You for standing behind Your Word. Help me to bring every thought captive so that my belief system becomes obedient to You, to Your Word. Thank You for Your Holy Spirit who leads and guides me in truth, in Jesus’s name, amen.

I would love to hear from you. Please let me know if I can be praying for you as well.

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