I’d simply be remiss after yesterday’s post, not to continue in the vein Pastor Carl so aptly unveiled, perhaps hidden in our hidden underground bunker command centers, when he said something to the effect that God wasn’t as concerned about our actions, as He was about our attitudes that lead to our actions and far beyond.
So, you can understand when I read this this May 26 “Think on These Things” from David Jeremiah’s Destination’s 2013 devotional, how I was now enabled to connect more of the dots from yesterday’s sermon, being more sharply focused by the Philippians 4:8 passage, “Whatever things are true … noble … just … pure … lovely … of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy-meditate on these things.”
Albert Einstein once said, “The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” (So true, just consider for example what the largely demonic World Economic Forum, WEF, has accomplished in changing our thinking since their inception, by merely focused humanistic thinking … Erb) Einstein was using the term world in a global sense, but his point of view is often also true in our personal worlds. Our thoughts become attitudes; our attitudes spawn actions, our actions braid themselves into habits; and our habits determine our destiny.
The fastest way to change your world is to change your thinking. Crowd out impure thoughts with Scripture memory. Push aside anxious thoughts with biblical promises. Learn the power of meditating on the Word. Think on God’s Book, which is true, noble, just, pure, lovely, and of good report. Find ways for you personally to come topside being restored by His LIGHT destroying those underground caverns disrupting any further exposure to filthy or negative mental intake. Be “transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2), for you cannot change your life without changing your thoughts. For as you develop the “mind of Christ” (I Corinthians 2:16) the God of peace will be with you.
BOTTOM LINE:
… Is for we Christ Followers, as in baseball, to get across home plate, and bringing as many others as possible. My “closer”analogy has literally gone amuck! “Closers” are skilled at shutting down a potential rally in the ninth inning with the bases loaded to win the game. Actually, my analogy should have centered around RBI’s (runs batted in) or perhaps, “assists!” So regardless, whether it is by His “closers, RBI’s, assists, or clinchers,” wrap your body, mind, and soul today around the arsenal of Truth & Spirit God provides to assure victory from Darkness, and crossing Home Plate! I’ve heard it said the biggest problem we have being His living sacrifice is that it is too easy for us to walk, crawl or roll off the altar, removing ourselves effectively from the Equation For LIFE, that being, living in faithful evangelism…
NEXT UP: A parable of a Muslim man’s uncanny investment in pebbles…