“They swarmed around me like bees,” the psalmist says (118:12).

Every second we get a sting from some fiery shaft, some imagination, some memory, some foreboding, some fear, some care, and God lets us get them in order that they may be destroyed and we so armed against them that they can never hurt us anymore.

The only way to be armed against them is to refuse them and the source from which they come.

There is a world of truth here that most Christians have entirely overlooked. They give their spirits and hearts to the Lord, and they keep their heads to themselves. Our intellect must be sanctified by being slain and replaced by the mind of Christ.

The only remedy for bad thoughts is to stop thinking all our own thoughts, to be spiritually decapitated, and to be delivered from the natural mind as well as the natural heart. God will, therefore, put us to school in the difficult task of stopping thinking. We will not only try to think right, but we will stop our thoughts and wait for Him to give us His mind.

This may seem to you like annihilation, but you will come to it if you are going to enter into the deepest, sweetest, strongest life, until you shall be afraid to think at all until God first thinks in you.

Have you given your thoughts to God? Have you learned the meaning of that cry of David, “I hate thoughts, but thy law do I love”? (Psalm 119:113 KJV.) A. B. Simpson

Each sin has its door of entrance.

Keep—that—door—closed!

Bolt it tight!

Just outside, the wild beast crouches In the night.

Pin the bolt with a prayer, God will fix it there.

“BEES IN AMBER” BY JOHN OXENHAM

Carelessness with thoughts is as dangerous as toying with explosives!

Bolt that door!