What Are You Thinking About

Ps 19:14--Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

     You can always tell what a person has been thinking about by the way they act or talk.  If a person is always thinking about food, that's what they will talk about and they'll probably be a little bit bigger than you are.  If someone is talking about sports all of the time, then that is what is taking up a good portion of their cranial space.  If you ever ask yourself the question, what was Obama thinking, then just look at his actions.  When Pujols, Hamilton or Fielder hit a home run, you'd better believe that they were NOT thinking of striking out.  Those people that do strike out are usually think about it. For you race fans, Kyle Busch deliberately ran into another driver.  What was he thinking?  The same thing most of us do.  We let our anger, fear or doubt become the cornerstone of our thinking process.  The result is that we wind up doing something that we would not normally do and later would regret. 

     David, the great shepherd boy who rose to be a great king, wrote a song that gave us insight to the mighty deeds that God wrought through him.  The cornerstone question that he built his life around is found in  the verse from Psalm 19 that I have quoted.  As we examine his statement we would evaluate it with the following qualifying questions. What I am thinking about right now, is that acceptable to God?  My soul and my innermost thoughts are always open to Him, is His stamp of approval on what I am thinking?  How does what I think about line up with His Word, His promises and His admonition?  If I gave Him my thoughts as a gift offering, would He accept it or just stand there looking at my soul as if He were displeased?

     Let's examine the Goliath incident.  David knew that God's covenant was for him and against God's enemies.  God had declared time and time again that His people would be blessed.  He knew that slavery and bondage to an ungodly nation was a curse and not a blessing.  God had promised in His covenant that His people would be the head and not the tail (Deut 28).  David became the hero of the day, not because he was the biggest man on the battlefield.  He was an over comer in battle, not because he was the best trained fighter.  He was a winner because he thought of himself in the light of God's Word.  He knew he was smaller.  He knew he was not well trained in battle.  However, he was well trained in prayer and meditation.  He thought of himself the way that God did.

     John 14:10 gives us greater insight.  Jesus said, "But the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."  You see, a Word centered thought process was the cornerstone of Jesus' ability, also.  David thought of himself as God did.  Therefore, God was the one who orchestrated the battle and it was God working on the inside of David that brought the victory.  When our minds line up with what God says and we start thinking the Word of God instead of the worry of the world, God begins changing our lives and our circumstances from the inside of us.

     You might try to argue that you look at the circumstances around you and view the world situation and declare that all is impossible.  Let's look at Abraham and Sarah for a moment.  If anyone was going to place bets on who would be the father of a multitude, these two would be way down on the list.  Los Vegas would put their odds at a gazillion to one.  Those odds would go up each successive year, also.  However, (Heb 11:11) Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.  Sarah, thought God was faithful and, at God's time, her body received strength to conceive and bear a child.  Her body kept getting older and deader.  Her thought life was acceptable to God and her faith in Him kept getting stronger.  Her faithfulness in her meditation brought her a supernatural ability to give birth when God's divine plan for her began to unfold.

     What have you been thinking about lately?  Have the problems of life and the condition of the world trained your thoughts?  Down through the years has that process brought to you victory of any kind?  Then, why not let your thoughts be acceptable to God and give Him and His Word a shot a straightening things out for you.  Let the miracles begin.