Wandering Mind
Philippians 4
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| I pray blessings on you as you read. |
(v. 7-8) "Then God's peace, which goes beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your thoughts and emotions through Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, keep your thoughts on whatever is right or deserves praise: things that are true, honorable, fair, pure, acceptable or commendable."
My Thoughts
Our minds like to wander, don't they? Mine definitely does, and it seems to do so more when I am trying to focus on something, like prayer. Not always does it go to bad things, but it does wander. Sometimes, my mind does wander into areas I don't want it to. That's something we need to be careful about.
What we need to keep our minds focused on are what Paul mentions here. True, pure, fair, honorable, acceptable and commendable things. Don't let your mind go to places where impure thoughts abound. Doing so will lead you into temptation, like I talked about a couple days ago.
When your mind wanders into that kind of territory, you become distracted from the things of God. Our attitude can reflect it sometimes too. So if we keep pure thoughts in our minds, our attitude will reflect that as well.
There is nothing wrong with thinking about work or a project or a movie or a game. The biggest thing is that is not where our minds should be focused most of the time. Focus on the task at hand that needs to be done like work. When you're watching a movie, enjoy the movie. It's when we are bored or relaxing or otherwise not doing anything that we need to be wary of where our minds are.
When your mind is in that place where it has nothing specific to focus on or anything, that's when it may wander into impure territory. When we have nothing to do or we are bored or relaxing, we need to be careful of our thoughts and focus them on the things of God and on other good things. Not let our thoughts become dark or tainted or impure.
What we need to keep our minds focused on are what Paul mentions here. True, pure, fair, honorable, acceptable and commendable things. Don't let your mind go to places where impure thoughts abound. Doing so will lead you into temptation, like I talked about a couple days ago.
When your mind wanders into that kind of territory, you become distracted from the things of God. Our attitude can reflect it sometimes too. So if we keep pure thoughts in our minds, our attitude will reflect that as well.
There is nothing wrong with thinking about work or a project or a movie or a game. The biggest thing is that is not where our minds should be focused most of the time. Focus on the task at hand that needs to be done like work. When you're watching a movie, enjoy the movie. It's when we are bored or relaxing or otherwise not doing anything that we need to be wary of where our minds are.
When your mind is in that place where it has nothing specific to focus on or anything, that's when it may wander into impure territory. When we have nothing to do or we are bored or relaxing, we need to be careful of our thoughts and focus them on the things of God and on other good things. Not let our thoughts become dark or tainted or impure.
Prayer Time
Now you talk to God about what you read, and you can even read this chapter of the Bible for yourself before you do.
Let me know your thoughts on this reading as well.
Thank you for taking the time to read, I pray that what you have read blesses and inspires you! Godbless!
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