Daily Journal: 19 September

The Inner State of a Person

The inner state of a person is the house we live in. Hold on to what is right and good, tightly. The thoughts we allow ourselves to feed on is the story we end up telling. The actions we watch, we become accustomed to. The behaviour we censor, accept or approve is the behaviour we end up living.

Titus 1:15 (NIV)

To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

The state of the world is a reflection of the inner state of millions of people around the world. Whatever we turn our mind to, we become.

Michah 6:8 (NCV)

The Lord has told you, human, what is good; he has told you what he wants from you: to do what is right to other people, love being kind to others, and live humbly, obeying your God.

To the pure of heart, life is sacred. Decisions and transactions in life are sacred. Relationships are sacred. Treatment of others is sacred. The pure can see the corrupt and the incorruptible.

To those who are corrupted, nothing is sacred. Nothing is incorruptible. Their own consciences cannot reprove them. The inner state of the corrupted is further corruption.

James 1:20 (GWT)

An angry person doesn’t do what God approves of.

Evil is being seen sharply in the world today, to such a degree that many people are celebrating it.

Romans 12:21 (GNT)

Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good.

It's more important than ever that the pure remain pure.

Proverbs 14:34 (NASB)

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Keep all things pure. Keep all things above reproach. We must not make excuses for our mind and our conscience to justify what we know, or even could be perceived of, as wrong.

Hebrews 4:12 (ESV)

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Be unintimidated by the corrupted minds around us or be influenced by them.

Psalm 101:3 (NIV)

I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.

The pure cannot approve or tolerate what is impure.