I'm not sure why but I am wondering about thoughts lately. My wife and I were discussing how much God knows last night and our little brains came up with an answer. God knows all things - His knowledge is complete. Without being too obvious this means God doesn't go to school, study or take tests to check and see if He remembers stuff. He could ace all tests and never needs to prepare, not just because He is gifted and remembers all the information but He actually KNOWS everything. What is even more interesting to me is that God knows my thoughts. God knows your thoughts too. God knows everyone's thoughts, intentions, motives, passions, emotions and desires.
I have a tendancy to share with other motorists what I think about their driving abilities. To be truthful I actually speak words by myself as I drive about those same driving abilities. God asks me to control my actions, my words and even my thoughts. Actually God asks me to submit my heart and mind to His Holy Spirit so that I can glorify Him more often than not duriing the day. I have to admit I enjoy thinking what I want, when I want and about who I want. I don't think God agrees. My mind should be so consumed with thoughts of God that I have very few moments to selfishly entertain anything else.
Jesus said"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these." (Matthew 6:27-29) Flowers and birds and fish and trees and all living things besides people are doing what they do - being themselves. We as people get to choose what to do, how to do, how to look, how to behave, how to present, how to represent, how to misrepresent, and on the list goes. Start in the mind. Fill your thought life with God, all His amazing-ness, all His glory and all His beauty and strength. Then as you act, as you speak, as you think, as you feel, as you react - God can be the starting point of all we produce. I know there are some days, well actually many days when I wish God would not know what is on my mind. That is where the choice begins - in the mind. Careful little mind what you think today, for what is in there might come out and it may not be pretty.
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May, 2008
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