What Are You Thinking?
Your thinking process shapes and controls your attitudes. Your attitudes are a composition of your total thoughts.
Proverbs 23:79 says, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Our attitudes lead to our actions, so we must monitor them closely.
The thought is the father of the deed. Before you act, the event must cross your mind. The achievements of your life are based upon the total of your thoughts.
An anonymous author wrote, “Sow a thought. Reap an act; Sow an act; Reap a habit. Sow a habit, Reap a character. Sow a character. Reap a destiny.”
It all begins in our thought life, our thinking process. When God prepares to shape a man or woman, to motivate their lives, He does it by changing how they think. The New Testament word translated “repentance” is “metanoia,” which means to change one’s mind in a way that it changes one’s direction. Romans 12:2 challenges us, “And be not so conformed to the world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind . . .” God transforms us by changing our thought process.
Therefore, a fierce battle is being waged for control of the human mind. What dominates your thoughts? The Lord Jesus desires that you present your heart and mind completely to Him. Then He will guide your thought patterns.
Nelson Price tells of 15 prominent university professors who took on the challenge to condense all the books they had studied on moving the human into action. Are you ready? Here is their condensed statement: “What the mind attends to, it considers; what the mind does not attend to, it dismisses; what the mind attends to continually, it believes; what the mind believes, it eventually does.”
