Vain  Sinful Thoughts

By Nick Bibile

Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil,

    that you may be saved.

How long shall your wicked thoughts

    lodge within you?

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Heart is the seat or the center of all affection and the fountain of all action. The heart sets the mind to work, the heart will invent, plan and design the thoughts; we call them the thoughts of the heart.

Mt 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

What are vain thoughts? Vain thoughts are sinful thoughts. Let’s go deeper and expose some of these vain sinful thoughts.

The heart is like a home with many rooms. There are guests who will come to this home and lodge in different rooms, guests of different kinds and they will entertain in these rooms. When you are getting fed from this world and your hearts kept open for the world, then the devil and his demons have an open direct access to your heart. These evil forces will tempt you and it is sad to say that many are welcoming these fun loving, pleasurable, lovable daintiest pleasures and they lodge and their hearts. They will defile those rooms in your hearts.

Where do these vain thoughts come from? They come from the world. Just imagine the influence of the media today on society, on Facebook,  Tiktok, YouTube etc.,  Everytime you buy a new phone, the color and the sound gets better.  Many fancy these imaginations and thirst after them. They are drunk in the world. Their mind is not on Christ but of the earthly places.

Why is it that many people who attend church will not remember the sermon that was preached, they don’t remember the scriptures, they don’t remember the spiritual things. But they will remember the sports, movies, gossip  Satan and the demons sent are choking them the word of God, others things are substitutes to the word of God.  Many who think they are Christians who are wrapped up with this world are not true Christians.

God is the most glorious, most majestic, most alluring, most holy, most worthy. How we need to think of God and our Lord Jesus Christ above all and to mediate upon heavenly things as our citizenship is not of this world but heaven. But when the enemy tempts this world with glorious vain things we can say, “I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. (Ps 119:113)