Tag: thought

My mother in law would tell me “ You’re so thoughtful”
She was too but in her own way. Today is her birthday, (she would have been 91!)

and thinking about her and what she said made me think.

We are all full of thought. Thoughts racing through our heads all day long, sometimes keeping us up at night. Being thoughtful can mean thinking about someone and meeting a need or giving a gift that has true meaning, a story behind it, or just reaching out to someone.

But how many times are we thoughtful about our thoughts? How often do you stop to think about what you are thinking about? What was your last thought? Can you identify what lead you to that thought? What about the thought before that? Do you think about what you think about?

Proverbs 23:7 – What a man thinks in his heart so is he.

Philippians 4:8 – Whatever is true, noble, right, pure… think on these things.

Controlling our thoughts is not easy, it’s a challenge. Especially when the enemy is constantly throwing fiery darts at us to get our thinking away from God. Sometimes I think, we should be good stewards of our thoughts, like we steward our time and money.

Have you ever just been thinking and gone down rabbit hole after rabbit hole and started to feel bad and wonder why? I know I have lots of times. I might be reminiscing and start thinking about a time I did something dumb or said something dumb and starting thinking about what I could have said or should have done, then I begin to wonder what those people at the time thought of me and if I was dumb and then I feel like crap.

Then there are times I think about something I actually did right, or happy memory of a birthday or how a trinket I came across made me feel the day I someone gave it to me or I come up with brilliant idea for a present to give someone and I feel elated.

Our thoughts are powerful and we have the capacity to control them. But we can’t very well, not without God’s help. Philippians 4:13, we can do all things through Christ…. 2 Corinthians 10:5 “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

According to KnowingJesus.com there are 85 verses. Our thought life is probably something we should give some attention to. Something to think about.

Happy Birthday Jean, we miss you.