Be self-controlled, be watchful. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. The Apostle Peter
The devil wants to possess you. He wants to devour you. He wants to swallow you whole. The way he does this is by thinking for you, feeling for you, or choosing for you. In a word: control. This is why Peter says be self-controlled. The devil wants to completely control you. This is how he gains control over you.
This "thought" flashes into your mind: "I hate him!" You feel intense hatred for your boss. This is what you think and feel, but you can't trace origin the thought or emotion. Though your boss sometimes annoys you, the feeling of hatred came on so suddenly and intensely that you can't recall how you came to feel it. At this moment you have a choice:
Accept the thought as your own.
Reject the thought and think for yourself.
This is how Satan gets you:
- He thinks in the first person, as if you are the one actually you thinking his thoughts.
- He imposes his emotion on you, as if it's actually you feeling the emotions of Satan.
The solution is self-controlled awareness, as Peter says. Determine your own thoughts and focus and be aware of what you are actually thinking and feeling.
Any thought that you didn't deliberately choose to think about is...not ...yours.
I'll say it again:
If you didn't actively choose the thought in your mind, and the thought is imposing itself on your mind to the extent that you can't seem to get it out of your mind, that unchosen uncontrolled thought is from the devil or a demon.
God never imposes His thoughts or feelings on you. Ever. If you have a thought in your mind that you blatantly don't want, but can't seem to stop thinking about it, that thought...is from...a demon.
As it is written,
"Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you."
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