Your thinking will make you or break you

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Take care of yourself”

Our Bible verse for today: “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)

Our thought for today: “Your thinking will make you or break you”

This morning, I want to continue our thinking from yesterday regarding the truth that there is power in positive thinking when that positive thinking is based upon the promises of God. We have already learned that our thoughts are the seeds of our words and actions. Also, our words and actions, accumulated and built upon over an extended period, create the life we end up with. We have examined numerous verses and passages from the Bible which teach that truth. Proverbs 23:7 (above) is part of that body of Biblical literature which teach this important Biblical principle.

Yesterday, I referred to the classic book “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale. That book was written in 1952 and has been a best-seller ever since. Today I will quote from an even older book, “As a Man Thinketh” written in 1902 by Dr. James Allen and it too, has been continuously in print since it was first published over one hundred years. Allen was a British philosopher and a proponent of the power of positive thinking in shaping a person’s life. As we have been learning, this principle is solidly Biblical and as you can see from the title, Dr. Allen’s book was inspired by the truth of Proverbs 23:7.

He writes, “As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.”

“A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.”

“A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”

“With those who have lived righteously, age is calm, peaceful, and softly mellowed, like the setting of the sun.”

The bottom line is if you want to improve your life, improve how you think. Your thinking will make your or break you.

The Apostle Paul reminds us in Philippians 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 – mediate on these things.”

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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