What Does it Really Mean to Take Your Thoughts Captive?

What does it really mean to take our thoughts captive?  I have a lot of time on my hands these days as there are many days I don’t have a lot of energy to do much.  It’s so easy to let my mind wander . . .

2 Corinthians 10:5 talks about taking our thoughts captive and making them obedient to Christ.  This verse comes up every few months in Bible Study, usually when my friend Amy is teaching.  (I can hear her voice in my head saying the verse and picture her speaking.) 🙂  When it came up again earlier this week as I was doing my devotions one morning, it hit me differently.  It had been a hard few days, as the days after chemo usually are.

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