Mind-boggling

Ecclesiastes 8:9          New English Translation

9 While applying my mind to everything that happens in this world, I have seen all this: Sometimes one person dominates other people to their harm.

Romans 1:28  New English Translation

28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

 

Mind-boggling

 

The mind can be disciplined or is it only when

There is total sovereignty by the man himself?

Partiality seems so simple when others dominate

As the thinking and the reasoning within by self is shelved

 

Who dictates the thought then and who picks the subject

According to whose wishes and who turns thought off and on?

Where is the origin, and how does it communicate?

Who then dictates the thought, and how is this done?

 

Romans 16:18                New English Translation

18 For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the minds of the naive.

 

When you give ground in your mind you forfeit its sovereignty

Otherwise in your “will,” you could start and stop thinking

A mind belongs to man, and the enemy cannot use it

Unless he has permission to settle there and it slowly starts stinking

 

The more space you yield here will provide the amount of activity

The flesh furnishes continually as the basis of operation

Unless from the darkened corners have been enlightened

The mentality will be changed at the time of regeneration

 

Unseen hosts of wickedness reach out from darkened corners

And influence the reasoning at times when least expected

Even during prayer, they seem to move on concentration

To throw off thoughts of Holiness and pollute as directed 

 

In an unregenerate mind, the flesh furnishes the basis

Continually and unrestricted the enemy makes preparations

The values then received on the standards of reason

Will be the foundation where it measures to its own damnation

 

As long as sin is cherished it's to invest the mind for that use

Unclean and proud selfishness is the measure from its estate

Unrighteous ideas supply at will the basis for opportunity

To do what’s right in its own eyes as it slowly degenerates

 

A slow decline fits Satan’s plan for your will drags people with you

For none will ever think that you are so rotten to the core

For you look and act civilized and fit into your surroundings

As no one sees the worm in you that wiggles through the back door

 

How does the mind get conquered? Why is it easy prey?

Not at once, I believe it seems to grow naturally little by little

Every time it accepts a lie and so makes it a way of living

It won’t be long that the mind misconstrues every jot and tittle

 

Matthew 5:18             King James Version

18 For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle

shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

 

Miss-interpretation of reality in this is fully natural

To say that all things you see fall in place as meant

It is a lie embraced, but it opens many more doors

For the activity of Satan to strike in every little tent

 

Jan Wienen

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