Paul describes spiritual warfare: 'We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.' The battle is mental.
I have OCD. Intrusive thoughts. For years I was in war with my own mind. Thoughts about God hating me, about losing my mind, about terrible things I might do. I fought them. I reasoned with them. I couldn't defeat them.
Then a therapist helped me understand: I don't have to defeat every thought. I just have to not believe it. A thought comes—'God hates you'—and I can say: that's not true. God loves me. The thought is just a thought. It has no power over me unless I give it power. Paul is right: thoughts are a battlefield. The victory is in not granting them authority.
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