And being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. 2 Corinthians 10:6 (NKJV)
The Bible teaches us in 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 that there’s a process to dealing with our thoughts. If you don’t deal with a negative thought, it becomes an argument. You begin to argue with yourself over this thought in your head, and begin to develop theories and reasonings. Your imagination begins to be filled with a wrong concept or theory, which set itself against the truth of God’s Word.
To avoid this, we need to keep studying and speaking God’s Word. Speaking it gets it into our heart where the right heart beliefs can begin to push out deep-seated wrong beliefs.
As you feed on God’s Word every day and speak it out, you discover the truth about yourself in Christ. Jesus defeated the curse that accompanied sin, gave us right standing with God as an unearned gift, and you are blessed and have favour with God because of what Jesus accomplished through the cross. As these revelations begin to sink in, it takes you to a whole new level of joy and peace.
Today’s verse says that we need to be ready to punish our disobedience when our obedience is fulfilled. What does this mean? Well, if you understand that righteousness is a gift, when a thought arises that God’s not going to heal you because you didn’t do something well enough, you can cast that thought out immediately. Those are disobedient thoughts because they are not accurate according to the new covenant that Jesus purchased for us.
As you begin to establish your heart in God’s Word and His grace, when disobedient thoughts rise up, you know it, and you can cast them out right away.