How You Think
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What role does your thinking play in your life? How do you think? How does your thinking shape your spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well being?
How we think matters. How we think shapes our well being and our health. Most importantly, how we think effects our relationship with God and with others.
The wisdom of the Proverbs says, “As a man thinks, so he is.” (Proverbs 23:7).
Our thinking shapes who we are, and our thinking shapes what we do. Our inner and outer lives are cultivated through our thinking.
In his letter to the church in Colosse, the Apostle Paul tells us, “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” (Colossians 3:2, ESV).
We are to fix our minds—our thinking—on eternal matters of everlasting and Godly consequence. Our thinking should be fixed upon God and God’s kingdom, so we might think as God thinks, and do the works of God’s kingdom here on earth. We are to have the mind of Christ and to think as God thinks.
As the Apostle Paul said to the Philippian church, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5, KJV).
Paul also instructed the Corinthian church, saying, “we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 2:16b, ESV).
As followers of Jesus, we have the mind of Jesus. We are called to think like Jesus and to have the thoughts and perspective of Jesus.
As the Psalmist says, “I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.” (Psalms 119:15, ESV).
May we be aware of how we think, and may we think the thoughts of God—setting our minds on the things that are above. May we become more and more like Jesus, having the mind of Jesus, thinking the thoughts of Jesus and his kingdom, and doing his kingdom work.
In Christ alone, Robbie
A Prayer For Holy Thought: “O God, without whose beauty and goodness our souls are unfed, without whose truth our reason withers: Consecrate our lives to your will, giving us such purity of heart, such depth of faith, and such steadfastness of purpose, that in time we may come to think your own thoughts after you; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.” (#75, Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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