Arguments or Obedience- Oswald Chambers

I have days when my thoughts just run....what if that happens? Worry, worry, and suddenly I am overwhelmed, saddened, by things that have not happened, and may not happen. When I learned 2 Corinthians 10:5, about holding every thought captive and making obey Christ. My attitudes and thoughts changed drastically. As my thoughts run rampant, to stop for a moment and ask myself~Are my thoughts obeying Christ? Is that worry, overwhelmed, sad feelings from Christ? 99% of the time the answer to that is NO! When I stop my thoughts for a moment, I realize that God has given me PROMISES. When I think and hold on to God's promises, NOT worry, I have HOPE! I have knowledge, I have LOVE! It has taught me to TRUST Christ. Just a simple change, in what it is that think on, has made a HUGE change in my attitudes, my outlook on life, the amount of worry in my life.



. . . the simplicity that is in Christ. —2 Corinthians 11:3

Simplicity is the secret to seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly until a long time passes, but a saint ought to see clearly without any difficulty. You cannot think through spiritual confusion to make things clear; to make things clear, you must obey. In intellectual matters you can think things out, but in spiritual matters you will only think yourself into further wandering thoughts and more confusion. If there is something in your life upon which God has put His pressure, then obey Him in that matter. Bring all your “arguments and . . . every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” regarding the matter, and everything will become as clear as daylight to you (2 Corinthians 10:5). Your reasoning capacity will come later, but reasoning is not how we see. We see like children, and when we try to be wise we see nothing (see Matthew 11:25).
Even the very smallest thing that we allow in our lives that is not under the control of the Holy Spirit is completely sufficient to account for spiritual confusion, and spending all of our time thinking about it will still never make it clear. Spiritual confusion can only be conquered through obedience. As soon as we obey, we have discernment. This is humiliating, because when we are confused we know that the reason lies in the state of our mind. But when our natural power of sight is devoted and submitted in obedience to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the very power by which we perceive God’s will, and our entire life is kept in simplicity.