I rode my bicycle 40 miles today. I haven’t ridden my bike that far since last year, when we made our trip down the Pacific coast from Canada to Mexico. I was exhausted when I got home, and as I sat in my recliner tonight trying to write this, I kept falling asleep. The worst thing about falling asleep in my recliner is that my mouth falls open, and everyone laughs at me. They have even been known to take my picture while I am sleeping in such an undignified posture. While sleeping, I am relaxed and having a nice rest, totally unaware of what is happening around me while snoozing, totally oblivious to my being the entertainment for everyone in our house.

There is actually a lot happening around us all the time that we are totally unaware of. All kinds of radio waves, cell phone waves, and internet signals are flying around us, and we can’t see, feel, smell, or hear them.

There are also many demons and angels all around us all of the time as well that we can’t see, feel, hear, or smell. Actually, we can hear them in our thoughts, but we are unaware that they are doing it, assuming that all of the things we hear in our head are original from ourselves.

Very few people realize how much these spirit beings control us simply by talking to us. There would be zero control over us if we simply dismissed the thoughts, but we tend to dwell on them and repeat them over and over in our thinking, and it isn’t long before those thoughts direct and influence our lives.

If we read the Bible a lot, memorize it, and meditate on what we have memorized and read, the thoughts popping into our heads from demons wouldn’t stay in our minds very long at all; they would be too foreign, and our brains would kick them out.

The thought of wicked, evil demons putting thoughts into my mind by talking to me makes me more agitated than if I were to eat a big spoon of bacteria and germs. If there is something that I can do to keep those ungodly and sinful thoughts from lodging in me, I will do it diligently.