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Creating an Impregnable Mind

Having an impregnable mind means outside forces cannot capture your mind. The imagery is of a flourishing city, with its citizens living their best lives while enemy forces linger and wait, hoping they can convince those safe inside to leave their city walls. To get people to give up, enemies would lunge boulders and cannons at city walls, try to deprive the city of needed resources and force them to lose their resolve.

 God would have us have an impregnable mind. Shots are fired, and the enemy may deprive you of what you deem necessary, but an impregnable mind has everything it needs to survive and thrive (Psalm 23:1). Proverb 4:23 “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.” As water came out of the rock in the wilderness that provided sustenance (Exodus 17:7), the issues of life can spring forth from our hearts. The heart is where peace and joy live, and where the Spirit of God abides (2 Cor. 1:21-22; Gal. 4:6), and the same heart can produce issues that should be non-issues. I remember the saying, “People create problems for us.” That is an indictment that it does not exist in reality. It was made an issue that sprang forth from your heart. Our entire existence sprang up and was developed from the mind of God (Eph. 1:4-5; Gen. 1:1-31). Where peace is supposed to dwell, don’t create with your mind invaders to take what you have in the safety of your mind.

 Let the world do whatever they are going to do outside our hearts; while we protect our hearts/minds, let us bask in the joy of what God has graciously provided for us within the confines of our minds that is impregnable.  “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:7).

Courtney Henderson