Battlefield of the Mind: Dilemmas Presented by Joyce Meyer

Battlefield of the Mind “Is it impossible? Is it going to be hard?” These are the dilemmas that Joyce Meyer gave to the reader, when it came to letting God into our personal worlds. Would these questions make any difference in the way we think and guard our thoughts from an unseen enemy? Like a soldier on the front line, our minds do so much for us; just like the soldier on the frontline, it’s important to guard and protect our minds as well. As neurons fire and dopamine travels an atomic distance from receptor to receptor, the proof can be seen in our everyday actions; from the smallest twitch to the words we speak, our brain… our mind play’s a central role in every action we make. The assigned article, “Battlefield of the Mind”, provided a shock to my outlook on the mind and made me reflect on what I really let into the space between my ears. The mind is a window into my inner spirit man. If someone pours oil into water you can see the instant separation and the distinct difference; the same goes for our mind and what we let influence our thoughts and thought process’. Just like what’s read in Genesis, everything God had created “was good.” Just like in Genesis, man has found a way to pervert and mold the mind into something that is more fitting for himself, instead of God. The great thing that comes from this article is the fact that even though all of the aforementioned “bad” things fermenting inside our brain from not protecting it can ruin us, we also have a way to protect our mind and prevent it from turning against God. We do this by calling on God to fill the spaces we leave vulnerable to the world and other outside influences. “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound…” Simple words that explain the rejuvenation that God can bring into our lives, bring into our soul, bring into our mind, if we ask, If we mean it. The Blood of Jesus Christ, and the promise that He will never leave us or forsake us can continue to echo in the very depths of our darkest and dirtiest thoughts and outlooks that the world has so seductively placed in our frontal cortex’s and inner lobe’s.
“Out of sight, out of mind.” A phrase so common among men and women today, it’s almost ritualistic in nature. Our mind being a sponge, we don’t even realize a majority of the time what is truly effecting and affecting our actions and reactions in our everyday life. This is why it’s so important for us to realize that “iron sharpens iron,” but who’s sharpening our sword.
Why do we even have to look at our mind as a sword, after all we’ve already been given God’s Word, His very own sword of truth, striking fear and defending our mind’s from the very evil it was designed and destined to cast out in dramatic and prevalent fashion.
The battlefield of the mind is a battle that every person finds him and herself fighting on a daily basis. The comfort we take in this war that has been waged between good and evil over the organ we call the brain is that the victory has already been won, as long as we choose the winning side. Jesus. “Is it impossible? No. Is it going to be hard? Yes.” But, there is victory in Jesus.