Chapter 7 – Think About What You’re Thinking About

Here is a day when I think it would be easiest to quote all of the good stuff. There is such good stuff here.

You get out of the Word what you put into it. If you just read it, but don’t meditate upon it, you will get very little out of it. But if you learn it and live it and apply it, the power of the Word will be given to you. Knowledge will be revealed.

I love King David. I identify with King David. Perhaps because he is an artist? I’m not sure, but he wrote songs when he was depressed. Songs of praise. Prayers from the heart. Prayers asking for help. Instead of meditating on his depression, he pondered the wonderful works that God had done. He thought of something good and it helped him overcome his depression.

The blood of Jesus has saved me. There is nothing I can do to save myself. I accept Jesus as my Savior and will go to heaven. But I want to live victoriously on Earth. I have not. Because I continue to think wrong thoughts. I do not rely on the Father for my needs. I rely on myself and others to fill me. This is wrong thinking. I must always go to the Word and the Father when I am in need.

I have been in misery and misery loves company. No one wants to be miserable. But if you think miserable thoughts, you will most likely be miserable, and bring others along for the ride. I have believed that I am miserable due to what others have done or not done. I have not had a right attitude. My happiness is not dependent on the attentiveness of others. My unhappiness is not a result of the attentiveness of others.

My way of thinking has control over my happiness.

I can choose to be miserable.

I can choose to be cheerful.

I can choose to ignore the Word of the Lord when it doesn’t go along with my thinking.

I can choose to use the Word of God to set my paths straight.

And I can greet every question with the Word. What if this? What if that? What about the other? Be still and know that I am the Lord. Do not be anxious about anything.

And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.
Mark 4:24 (ESV)