Protecting the Inner Man

How do we make efforts to protect our inner man?can not limit your time around some negative people,
The inner man is the real you. What steps can wetry to also have a positive thought for every
take to battle the many forces of life? We will covernegative thought they throw out. For example, they
some of the positive things we can do to protectsay "I know you can't do it," we say to ourselves
our inner man. There are seen and unseen things orsomething positive, maybe a scripture or make
forces at work most of the time. Weather wepositive statement to ourselves, for example, Phil:
believe it or not makes no difference. It is what it is.4:13 "I can do all things through the Messiah which
One of first things needed to protect our innerstrengthened me."
selves is realizing it needs protecting. Sadly, manyPerhaps one of the greatest areas of needed
people are unaware of the many secret agendasprotection is against music. Some music can seem
working in our land today. We must realize thatinnocent, but it is far from it. If we are not careful
everybody here is not here to do good works. Once,some of these lyrics will enter our inner man and
we obtain this mind set we can move forward a littlewreak havoc. Music can be so subtle that the listener
better. We must constantly realize this key point.is caught off guard. This allows the words and
Daily reading of the scriptures can give us a sourcethoughts to penetrate our mind unhindered. What do
of inner strength. This strength will help us to protectwe do? What is the solution? We should build an
the inner man. We should try to read a few pages ofinner wall to protect ourselves. Look at some music
the scriptures every morning. This practice will oftenfor what is it, deadly poison to our inner man. We
begin to set the mind on a solid footing for the day.should always try to stay on our guard around all
It will help us to face the challenges of day. Also, themusic until we have determined it purpose.
mind will begin to focus on positive thoughts. By justFinally, we have to learn to think or meditate on
this one step we can put a strong hedge aroundpositive thoughts. We have to let our mind and heart
ourselves.grow in the love for our fellow man. When we
We can also protect our inner man by staying awayprotect our inner man, we are also helping to protect
from negative people. We all know that sometime itour fellow man. We become part of the solution and
is not possible to stay away from negative people.not part of the problem. It is our duty to continue to
Because, the reality is that a negative person couldthink well, love well and live well.
be a spouse, boss, preacher or a love one. If you