Think on These Things

You will go where your thoughts lead you. Our loving Father in Heaven reminds us to "renew our minds with the washing of the Word" and to "hold every thought captive". So much in scripture has to do with our thoughts. "As a man thinks, so is he".  It is no wonder that people can be influenced by mind control, brainwashing, mental illness. Our mind is so powerful that our own thoughts can make us believe lies about who we really are. Like it or not, we are constantly being controlled. The more important question is, who are we allowing to form our thoughts? Who have we given our attention to, our ear, our heart? The Bible says, "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God". If faith comes by hearing, then doesn't it stand to reason that we should be so very careful about the source of what we allow to enter our ears? If we are hearing the Word, our Godly faith will be alive. If we lend our ear to anything that contradicts the Word, our faith will be in something other than God.

 

Whatever is 

true

noble 

right

pure 

lovely

admirable

excellent 

or 

praiseworthy 

think about such things. 

If we keep reading in this same chapter, Paul writes, 

"The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things [in daily life], and the God [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you."(Philippians 4:9 AMP)

When God is our source, peace and well-being will be with us. These attributes that we are urged to think on, come straight from God and His Word.

To what have you been listening?

To whom do you lend your ear?

If your peace and well-being are absent, how wonderful that we can return to the Source and start fresh!