One of the most valuable lessons I've learned over the last few years is that I do have control over my thoughts. It's true that a thought or idea may enter your mind, but it doesn't have to stay there. Although there was nothing much I could do about my eyesight and many of the circumstances surrounding me, I realized that I could determine my thought and how things affected me. I've been familiar with 2 Corinthians 10:5 for a long time but it took me all that time to learn how to apply that word.

I love how it reads in the Message...

^3-6 The world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way—never have and never will. The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity.