5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5 This was the most helpful verse in the Bible for me in my early years as a Christian. Until I heard Dave Holden teach on this verse, I had previously thought: “there is no distinction between me and my thoughts” in other words, “if I am thinking this thought then there’s nothing I can do about it.” Dave taught through this verse that I can quickly stop thinking wrong thoughts provided I could “take them captive”. Then the eureka moment was actually finding a biblical way to deal with the thoughts that seemed to torpedo my faith. What does it look like to “take captive every thought,”? Well what I did was I pictured that unhelpful thought as a sort of dirty dish cloth and then I threw it (in my mind’s eye) at Jesus on the cross. The benefit of this is that it took me to thinking about Christ. I’d then replay the thought in the light of Christ on the cross, and 9 times out of 10 the worry no longer made any sense and dissolved. My friend worry is a pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. Worry says: “I know best. I am a better place of refuge than God. God is unrealistic. Come to me, and worry.” Take every worrying thought captive today! You can’t do anything about which thoughts come into your mind, but you can do a lot about them once they are there!