God showed me this in helping renew my mind. Imagine your evil thoughts are like a leper in you. He walks around in your mind with diseased thinking. He rings a bell when he is near. He has to be brought to the Lord for healing. What is the bell? Every time you feel resentful that is a warning to turn to the Lord, every time you feel anger, that is a warning to turn to the Lord. Cry out, Lord my thinking is resentful, help me. And Lord, my thinking is angry, help me! Don’t wear the identity of I’m angry, or I’m resentful for they are identities of the sin. A child of God turns to the Lord in his distress. A child of God waits on the Lord. The Lord will calm the storm and help us see with sane eyes. our sinful nature is depraved and needs the mind of Christ to experience sanity! If we touch the leper without Christ we catch the disease. But if we turn to the Lord as soon as the "bell" rings we can abandon our wicked thoughts and let His thoughts fill our mind.