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The Topic of Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional 22nd January 2023 is “Natural Thinking in Today’s World”.
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:1–7
1Now I, Paul, appeal to you with the gentleness and kindness of Christ—though I realize you think I am timid in person and bold only when I write from far away.
2 Well, I am begging you now so that when I come I won’t have to be bold with those who think we act from human motives.
3 We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do.
4 We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.
5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.
6 And after you have become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient.
7 Look at the obvious facts. Those who say they belong to Christ must recognize that we belong to Christ as much as they do.
TODAY’S INSIGHT – 22ND JANUARY 2023.
Today, let’s focus in on a single passage of Scripture and digest it carefully. One of the most helpful passages to help us train our minds is 2 Corinthians 10:1–7. Take a few moments to read and meditate on these seven verses. Try reading them out loud.
Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent! I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete. You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we. (2 Corinthians 10:1–7)
The Corinthian Christians were an ornery lot! Although born again, they often operated in the realm of carnality because they had a secular mentality. To borrow from yesterday’s reading on Romans 12, they were “in the mold” of the world system . . . their minds were “unrenewed.” At times you would have sworn they weren’t even in the family of God. For example, they fought with one another, they criticized Paul, they were competitive in the church, and they winked at gross immorality in their midst. Other than that, they were just fine.
In this section of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he points out several of the ways they revealed natural thinking. I find five characteristics:
They were prejudiced instead of objective (10:2).
They focused on the visible rather than the invisible (10:3).
They relied on human strength, not divine power (10:4).
They listened to men instead of God (10:5).
They perceived things superficially rather than deeply (10:7).
When our carnality is in gear, Paul’s comments aptly describe our mind-set: surface judgment, shallow thinking, lack of depth, closed, independent, overly impressed with humanity, and spiritually out of focus.
When we get “squeezed into the mold” the world does a number on us, doesn’t it?
About Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional “Today’s Insight”.
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