Brown's Daily Word 2-20-14

  Praise the Lord for this day.  It is brilliant and almost balmy here in New York.  Thank you, Jesus.  The Lord blessed us with a wonderful Wednesday gathering.  The fellowship was sweet; the study of the Word was a great blessing.  I read some time ago that the average person has 10,000 separate thoughts each day. That works out to be 3.5 million thoughts a year.  At this rate, if you live to be 75, you will have over 26 million different thoughts in your lifetime.

    Already most of us  have had well over 5,000 separate thoughts since we  got out of bed this morning.  We  probably have another 5,000 before you sleep tonight.  Then you will start all over again tomorrow.  Every one of those 10,000 thoughts represents a choice we  make, a decision to think about this, and not about that.  Suppose someone gave you $10,000 this morning and said, “Spend it any way you like as long as you spend it all before you go to bed tonight.”  You would be careful how you spent it, maybe even down and take inventory of what you could do with that much money. 

    How sad that we devote so much time to how we spend our money and so little time to how we spend our thoughts.  How sad that one seems so important and the other so trivial.  Our thoughts represent ourselves, our personalities.  Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Beware of what you set your mind on because that you surely will become.”  Norman Vincent Peale said, “Change your thoughts and you change the world.”  Henry Ford gave that truth a different spin when he declared, “Thinking is the hardest work in the world, which is probably why so few people engage in it.”  Then I ran across this perceptive comment, “Two thoughts cannot occupy the mind at the same time, so the choice is ours whether or not our thoughts will be constructive or destructive.”

    Change your thoughts and you will change the world.   "The choice is ours.” God gave us 10,000 thoughts today, but it’s up to us what we do with them.  2 Corinthians 10:5 says that we should “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”     

 "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." Philippians 4:8

 

In Jesus,
Brown
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