Heavenly Thoughts

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Our thoughts are such a powerful tools. They help define us they help describe us, they are instrumental to the success and failures in our lives on a large scale. When we look at the human experience over time and throughout our history, the way we decide to grow and develop our thought patterns place us in one of two very important categories, either good or evil. As we become more spiritually mature our thoughts should become more heavenly. We should strive to be ever closer to God and since we can't see him physically we have to learn to connect with him in spirit and in truth and this can be done through our thoughts.

By definition thoughts are, "mental pictures and ideas passing intentionally and unintentionally through the consciousness." The power of the mind and thoughts is awesome, the mind is the control tower of character, conduct, and conversation. We can think rightly or wrongly, we can think positively or negatively, and the rest of our life will be influenced by our thinking. That is the power of the mind. You can't think evil and live a righteous life. Things just don't work that way, Godly living is the result of godly thinking, it is just that simple. George Sweeting once said," God's cure for evil thinking is to fill our minds with that which is good." So a question comes to mind, are our thoughts really that powerful? and I believe they are. How do we deal with problems in our thinking? The one thing that all humans have in common is our erroneous thinking and ability to make mistakes, which are directly tied to the way we think.

Our thoughts are also directly tied to our mental, physical, and spiritual health. We can literally think ourselves into mental and physical distress. Doctors attest to the fact that a large percentage of physical illness has a psychological basis. People have been given a dim prognosis concerning some illness only to defeat the disease based primarily on the positive way they attack it with their thought patterns. The wise king Solomon wrote, " A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones" (Prov. 17:22)

Finally the apostle Paul had a profound experience with the human thought and how they influence our lives. He says in Philip. 4:8, " Finally brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy meditate on these things. Plus we would note that Paul thought about such things when his circumstances were not very favorable. Paul wrote this verse while sitting imprisoned for promoting and spreading the Gospel. So we can become closer to God by what we think. Keeping our minds focused on him and what we inwardly know he wants us to do with our lives will go a long way toward developing a thinking pattern that will bring us ever closer to God. Today let us fill our very minds with higher thinking that is aquainted with a connetion to God. After all God is not limited by earthly circumstances as we are, he resides in the heavens which are limitless. May our daily thoughts and ideas be where he is, which is amoung the stars. The affect this has on the human experience and existence is beyond words to describe.. 

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