but it must be crucified. We must remember that "ye are not your
own, for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body,
and in your spirit, which are God's." I Cor. 6:19,20. If we belong to
God then we do not belong to ourselves. We must be aware of the fact
that self will make many concessions to live. Self sometimes will allow
its owner to do many sacrificial deeds if it can live. It will even bear
hard things, but it must go. Self must be crucified. We must die to good
deeds, and to bad deeds, successes, failures, exaltations, humiliation,
friends and foes. Oh, it must not be us but Jesus that will be lifted up
in our lives! The Apostle Paul said, "I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who
loved me, and gave himself for me." Gal. 2:20. So it must not be self
that lives but Christ must live in us.

We need to watch our thoughts to keep our peace. We are told that God
"wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because
he trusteth in thee." Isa. 26:3. When our peace is disturbed we need to
check to see where our mind has been or what we were thinking about.

The mind is the battle ground. The devil has access to the mind as well
as God. We are tempted through the mind. The devil will present wrong
thoughts and then the Lord is right there to bring us good thoughts or
suggest the right thing to do. We need to separate our thoughts. We need
to cast out the wrong thoughts and only think on the good thoughts from
God. The devil is like a persistent salesman. He will talk and talk at
the door and if you are not careful he will get the door open and have
his foot in it. If you give him any encouragement he will be sitting in
your living room and have his wares all spread out before you. So we
must not let the devil get past the door of our mind. Just tell him
right off, "I am not interested."

We think of the children of Israel in Egypt, when God told them to put
the blood of the lamb on their doorposts one night, so their eldest son
would be spared when the death angel passed over. Ex. 12:12,13. The
blood on the door was the powerful warning to keep evil from the
Israelites on that night when the Egyptians were visited and death was
in every home. Just so, dear Grandson, the blood of Jesus on the door of
our heart and mind will keep the devil from coming into