What are you choosing to think about today? Notice the word “choosing”. We can choose what we will think about.
Philippians 4:8-9 tell us exactly what kinds of thoughts we can choose to think:
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
This passage is powerful to pray through. Taking time to meditate on each type of thought we are to think about is insightful. I realize just how much my thoughts are stuck in what is not good or right or worthy of praise.
But when I confess those thoughts and realign my mind to the “things above” (Colossians 3:2), I feel a weight lift off my shoulders and a peace return that I might not have known was missing.
Elaine Goddard at Highway2Him has invited me to share a devotional and a peek inside my “prayer closet” this week. Visit us here to join me as I ponder God’s Word and pray in response.
