by Arina
Contributing Author, Conscious Reminder
Undoubtedly, often many of us remain discouraged in our lives because of some shoddy and impure habits of ours.
And, the most unfortunate part of the story is that in spite of knowing the high extent of deteriorating effects of such practices, we usually find it hard to avoid them!! Well, no doubt, such degrading habits, and wrongful thoughts sometimes take us to an extreme level of immorality and atrocity.
But, you should take every possible stride to let the Satan turn out to be unsuccessful in making you think that you can’t gain victory over your negative thoughts and habits. However, you can’t even ignore the fact that we all are being overtaken by various common temptations over the time. But, in Christ, it is genuinely possible to win over the destructive power of sin.
Just practice these wonderful approaches in your life, follow God, keep faith on him.
Replace the Secret Pictures in Your Mind
There remains a certain mass of impure thoughts in everyone’s mind irrespective of their inherent attributes. And, when your mind gets tempted then you are more likely to revive these pictures and finally start focusing on them. So, you ought to make appropriate attempts to superimpose God’s image over them and thus you would definitely attain freedom over the influence of such evil pictures. You should gracefully rejoice that he died for freeing you from impurity!
Sign a Pact with Your Eyes
One of the foremost approaches to protect your mind from any kind of impulsive or negative feeling is nothing but having a complete control over your eyes. If you become successful in yielding a control of your eyes towards God then he would definitely teach you the way how you should see others like the way he believes in seeing them. So, whenever you get influenced by any temptation to sin against someone whom you don’t like then ask God to let you get rid of all such wicked feelings and grace you to see the person as he does.
Try to Win the Battle
A battle against the delusive powers to protect your soul is far more complicated and dreary than any physical or psychological struggle. It’s because this battle is a spiritual one against the hazardous forms of evils!! In such a scenario, most of the time our natural inclinations betray us. So, when God wants you to motivate yourself in terms of grace and knowledge while allowing you to face the pressure in your mind then do follow him. On doing this you’ll definitely be able to avoid the clash.
Expel the Hidden Ways to Defeat
In the scripture it is stated that ‘Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof’. If there is any sort of provision for the flesh then it proves your likeliness to fail and actually invites you towards temptation. It would provide a wide array of tempting possibilities for your mind, excite your emotions and thus it will defeat the will.
Moreover, Bible suggests us not to walk in the way of evil to completely avoid it. So, you need to remove the things from your life that Satan usually uses for defeating you. If you choose to expel these sources of impure temptations from your life then you can easily avoid entering into the path of evil.
Know How to Live in the Fear of God
This saying in the Bible which states that ‘by the fear of LORD men depart from evil’ (Proverb 16:6) makes a huge sense. One of the foremost approaches to have a fear of God always is nothing but a continuous awareness that God is watching everything and evaluating our every word, action, thoughts, and attitude.
So, if you bear such a thought in your mind all the time then it would finally let you get rid of all kinds of impure thoughts.
Realize that Victory Over Impurity is Possible
So, by now, you must have understood that to remain away from all kinds of negativity in life requires huge determination and an unending believe in GOD. So, in future, if you ever think that a devil in you is more likely to take the toll then just start following these aforementioned holy routes of living. And, I am sure you would definitely end up leading a positive and happy life ahead!
About Author: Arina is the marketing manager at CouponsMonk.com, deals and discounts provider company. She is passionate about sprituality, astrology, lifehacks and money saving. In addition, Arina also supports non-profit agencies that provide healthcare solutions to handicapped and disabled people.
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