A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

Can you imagine what would happen if people could actually read our minds.  What if a video was played of our thoughts at the end of each day for the world to see?  I for one would be extremely embarrassed to have my thoughts on display.  One thing I can say without any doubts most of our thoughts are not worth one cent! 

We cannot hide our thoughts from God.  The Bible says in Psalm 139:2 NIV; You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

Gaining control of our thought life is no easy task.  Most of us enjoy thinking about things we would never verbalize.  Yet, to leave this area of our life undisciplined will eventually expose us for who we really are.

Let’s peek at a few verses to truly understand the war that wages within the mind.

(Gen 6:5 NKJV)  Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

(Job 20:2 NKJV)  "Therefore my anxious thoughts make me answer, Because of the turmoil within me.

(Job 21:27 NKJV)  "Look, I know your thoughts, And the schemes with which you would wrong me.

(Psa 10:4 NKJV)  The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts.

(Psa 94:11 NKJV)  The LORD knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.

(Isa 59:7 NKJV)  Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths.

(Isa 65:2 NKJV)  I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, Who walk in a way that is not good, According to their own thoughts;

(Jer 4:14 NKJV)  O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

(Jer 6:19 NKJV)  Hear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people; The fruit of their thoughts, Because they have not heeded My words, Nor My law, but rejected it.

(Mat 15:19 NKJV)  "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

The Lord’s thoughts are completely different from our thoughts.  We would do very well to pattern our thoughts after the Lord.  Even with all our evil intentions God’s thoughts towards us goes beyond our comprehension!

(Psa 40:5 NKJV)  Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works Which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.

(Psa 92:5 NKJV)  O LORD, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.

(Psa 139:17 NKJV)  How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

(Jer 29:11 NKJV)  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

We can take back our thoughts and put boundaries around our thinking patterns.  We can control those thoughts instead of thoughts controlling us.

(1 Chr 29:18 NKJV)  "O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of Your people, and fix their heart toward You.

(Heb 4:12 NKJV)  For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

(Prov 16:3 NKJV)  Commit your works to the LORD, And your thoughts will be established.

(Isa 55:7 NKJV)  Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

(Eph 6:17-18 NKJV)  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

(1 Th 5:8 NKJV)  But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

Let’s secure that helmet in place, taking every thought captive.

(2 Cor 10:5 NKJV)  casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

…a penny for your thoughts

and that is my two cents worth