September 2, 2025

Minding Your Thoughts

A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life

Ezekiel 36:5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

Idumea is Edom. Edom was a great enemy of Israel. Isaiah prophesied against this nation; (Isaiah 34:5, 6)  For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. “The present desolate condition of that land is a standing testimony to the inspiration of these prophecies. After an existence as a people for above seventeen hundred years, they have utterly disappeared, and their language is even forgotten forever. In Petra, where kings kept their court, and where nobles assembled, there no man dwells; it is given by lot to birds, and beasts, and reptiles."  (Strongs)

Someone once said, “Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”  This being the case, consider one lesson from the overthrow of Idumea. Guard against cultivating and harboring a despiteful mind.   

May the Lord bless and be pleased with your thought life today.

Dr. William Howe