Beware what you feed your mind

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Praise the Lord!

Precious Saints, today we will meditate upon a topic of great importance which has been raging in the minds of philosophers, motivational speaker, intellectual and common mind. What is human mind like?

Paul has cautioned us that we should beware of 4 things from entering into our minds lest that corrupt us, spoil us and take us away from Christ.

1. Human Philosophy
We have lots of philosophers Socrates, Aristotle who have written lots of books on human mind. Who have tried to understand but failed to understand this wonderful masterpiece of God.

2. Deceit

Here he talks about deceit through word of God. There are people who are sheep in Wolf clothing. I am referring to "PROSPERITY PREACHERS" who talk only about prosperity and materialistic things and rob the children of God from the central theme of Bible which is Kingdom of God.

3. Traditional talk
Here Paul cautioned us about traditional method which many church use for entering the God's Kingdom. He talks specifically of Church Doctrine which hinders a Christian from understanding the word of God.

4. Rudiments of World
The warning that Paul gives is a very real one. There are many of those who profess to be the followers of CHRIST who have embraced the “rudiments” of the world. This is the exact error of the Judaizers who set about to teach the continuing necessity of fleshly circumcision and the keeping of Jewish feasts and holy days. The natural religion of men has its very foundation in the “rudiments of the world” and has an almost overwhelming power over the natural man.

Saints, beware what you read, see and think as you will influence your mind accordingly.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

God Bless