Feeding Your Mind

 

“…if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”

—Philippians 4:8

Our thought life has a much more profound impact on the direction our lives take than we realize. Wherever we focus the attention of our minds usually determines where we are going in this life, and even the next.

Applied psychologists have verified the effect our thoughts have on our actions through countless studies. Lots of popular motivational literature is based on the concept: “As I think, so I am.”

Even believers in the life-transforming power of the Lord Jesus Christ recognize the effect their thought lives have on their spiritual formation.

The Apostle Paul urged the Christians at Philippi to guard their thought lives, as recorded in Philippians 4:8:

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

We do well to guard our thoughts in order to channel our actions.

 

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