Thought by thought we choose from what we know. We choose from what we love and as we act on what we've been thinking and what we love, we create the quality of life that we live. What we think about matters. Yes it does, and most important is what we think about God, the Creator of heaven and earth. Do you have any thoughts about Who He is and what He is like and the place that He wants to hold in your whole life?
Are you happy with your life, your thoughts, your choices and the consequences of them? Do you need to make some changes? Do you need to think differently and have higher thoughts that put you in the best position to make the best choices to do the right things?
Jesus says in John 15:5 ...apart from Me [that is, cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.
Nothing? Nothing that really matters. If we can't think right, we can't do right.
So what's thinking right? How do we measure if it's right or not? There has to be a higher standard for how we think outside of ourselves.
Do we just go with what pops into our head?
Do we say and do whatever we want?
Do we follow somebody?
Do we follow the crowd and what's popular?
Do we follow money?
Do we follow other things?
That's how the world got to be so messed up. Something has to change and be different. That something is us and how we think and what we love. We need higher thoughts that lead to higher ways.
The higher standard for me is God's ways and thoughts. Why? Because I believe He is good and He knows what's best. He has shown me that He loves me, and not just me, but He loves you, He loves us all. He has even set boundaries to protect us because He loves us.
God's Word says in Matthew 19:17 ...there is none good but One, that is God...
Isaiah 55:9 says, Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, My thoughts and My ways are higher than yours.
Stop to really think about the thoughts you think. They lead to the actions we take and our thoughts are sometimes really messed up. They're just not right and we know that deep down inside ourself.
When that happens, what are we supposed to do with those messed up thoughts?
His love and goodness draws me to Him closer and closer. That makes me want to of my own free will follow His higher thoughts and ways. Then, when I willingly choose to follow Him and agree with Him that He knows best, He helps me to put down those messed up thoughts. He checks me gently. He helps me to change my mind to think like He thinks and gives me the strength to follow how He leads. I trust Him. I believe He knows better than me. I believe He knows all things. He's the Creator, God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ, God the Holy Spirit!
If we follow and treasure anything else more than we follow and treasure Him, we've missed the True Treasure of this life that gives lasting joy, peace and contentment.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:26 ...God said, "Let us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority...over the entire earth...
Genesis 1:31 God saw everything that He had made...was very good...so very good...excellent in every way...
How Amazing is God!♥️A perfect creation from a perfect Creator Who prepared everything good, before He made us very good like Him, because it was His pleasure to do so. He loves us.
So what happened to the very good that God created? The very good is still here because God and His Love for us is still here, but so is the bad that is separated apart from Him.
Genesis 2:16, 17 says ...the Lord God gave... this warning: "You may eat any fruit in the garden... except from the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil. Don't eat from it...for it's fruit will open your eyes to make you aware of right and wrong ...good and bad. If you eat its fruit, you will be doomed to die."
Well what did we do? We ate the fruit. You ate it. I ate it. We all ate that fruit that God said don't eat. Our eyes are opened. We are aware of right and wrong, good and bad. We have all chosen to go in ways that He warned us not to go from the beginning of creation until now. We have all chosen to do what was in our heart and mind to do, to go our own way and be lost in our choices of thinking and doing what's not always good and right. We're still making those same kind of choices today, doomed to die in separation from our good great God forever.
Unless...
Unless we turn to Him.
Unless we call on Him to help us!
Unless He saves us.
And He will save us, "IF" we turn to Him.
Will you turn? Will you call on Him to help you? I did. I'm glad about it. So glad!
It's your choice and "It's Xtremely Personal".♥️ Amen! Amen!
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