Week 48 2 Corinthians 10
Verses three-four-five seemed pretty important. I re-read them. Copied them. Added a couple of notes:
3 For though I live in the world, I do not wage war as the world does (so destructive industrial-scale physical combat & death-dealing isn’t my approach)
4 The weapons I fight with are not the weapons of the world (no rockets drones tanks bombs missiles)
On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds (Paul says here that these divinely-powered weapons can demolish strongholds. In the next verse it looks like strongholds are arguments and pretensions)
5 I demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God (arguments & pretensions are Strongholds of the Idea & Thought-World. I’m up against intangibles – lies deceptions false-appearances fakeries inaccuracies & make-believes. The war is a conflict between Knowledge-About-God & Deceptions-About-God).
and I take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (where do I go from here? I take a look at the thoughts that are swirling around in my own head. And it looks like I have two kinds of thoughts: a) the pretend-fake ones (that need to be captured) and b) the ones that are legitimate (and can be left free)).
So my thoughts in category (a) – the lying non-truths about the Lord – have to be identified and arrested.
That sounds like my take-away today: focus on getting-hold of my erroneous & deceptive thoughts.
Note: quotes from 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NIV). Where Paul used ‘we’ I personalized it – changed it to ‘I’.