Mind: Friend or Foe?

"The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but the words of the pure are pleasant." (Proverbs 15:26)

 "Of the wicked" and "of the pure" means that this verse speaks of two different agents. By wicked it means the ungodly and by pure it means Gods children, now notice how the verse does not say "the thoughts of the the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasant." Instead it says "the words of the pure are pleasant" now I wonder why it says that? Since we have accepted Christ into our lives aren't our thoughts always good? No! We still have bad thoughts, let me rephrase that, we still have wicked thoughts, but now that we have been transformed by the renewing our minds (Romans 12:2) we have been blessed with a clean and good conscience. Now the reason our thoughts aren't an abomination, is because the wicked act upon those thoughts, while we test those thoughts. As Paul says in 1 Timothy 1:19 "having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck." when we don't look and determine our thoughts according to a heavenly standpoint and ask of the Holy Spirits assistance, we reject that good conscience God has so graciously blessed us with and we suffer a shipwreck in our faith. For Jesus said in Matthew 12:34-37;

"For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil things. But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgement. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

 Now if we could just remember those words everytime were about to open our big mouths we would be prefectly fine. But we don't were human were prone to error, so how do we keep our mouth to speak of justice? Were going to always have to be consistently guarding our thoughts. Ya we could do that or we could be as the wise psalmist David, who was two steps ahead of his foolish talk and bad thoughts, he said;

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer." (Psalm 19:14)