Maybe...(hope you're comfortable)because "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9)We think with our minds but I've little doubt it's the heart that directs the ways or patterns of thought.Wicked things may float between our ears but that's a symptom of the wicked,deceitfull heart.We hold those thoughts captive to Christ but it doesn't mean they won't come back.Since the heart is deceitfull (above all things!)it follows that it lies,to others and to us and it seems bent on our ill.The heart seeks to have it's own glory and to have it's own way.'IT' is lord wether we like it or know it or not. Until we meet God then the battle's on.
1 John 5:13 says at the end "....that ye may know ye have eternal life AND that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God"...which is the work of God(John 6:29) *I think* that 1 John 5:13 is saying You who believe and call on Jesus may know that you have life and that you may do the work of God.I actually believe that you have to know you have life in order to do the work of God. Jesus told the apostles..."I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now" they would bear them later though when the Spirit of truth led them to the truth.
I think we need to know we have life in order to be able to do "the work of God" which will no doubt include many many things we cannot bear yet.
Jesus prayed that the Father would sanctify us by the truth then said "thy word is truth" and since that same word "is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" it won't,to a heart that's desperately wicked and deceitfull,be pleasant.In fact it will be deadly.
Better to be busy doing what heart tells us is the Lord's work than confront that sword.It is our own deceitfull heart that simply will not let us believe what God has freely given us.It's just simply too good to be true and therefore can't be...and then,like Martha,it's straight back to worries and concerns.
Knowing that you have life and that it was paid for with a terrible price,showing us just what lengths God would go to to redeem us and just how much He loved us and that it is ALL on someone else's account,namely, His ONLY begotten Son, is like a bomb going off in the human heart.It paralizes the accuser,not that he'll stop trying but no way is he gonna get much of a feed here anymore,let alone devour anything. It is that fact alone,that we have life in His name,that will quiet our heart,once it sinks in,once and for all! Once we believe that in our heart we will trully be released from bondage to slavery,trully be free and trully cease from our own works.Then that same accuser will be in the dirt under our feet.
FWIW
Of course you do otherwise, it could not be this...
Philippians 2:13 ... for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Jesus prayed that the Father would sanctify us by the truth then said "thy word is truth" and since that same word "is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" it won't,to a heart that's desperately wicked and deceitfull,be pleasant.In fact it will be deadly.
For the believer, however,
Scripture memory...
Psalm 119:11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Scripture meditation
Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.