The Result of Right Thinking
One of my wife’s favorite literary characters is Winnie the Pooh (smile). She loves it when he gets into one of his messes, sits down, taps his forehead, and says, “Think, think, think.” Would to God, in this one particular, we Christians would emulate this comical cartoon clown. Many have flabby brains from lack of exercise. We can’t get out of a jam for the same reason we got into it; we don’t think.
A Christian can be carnally minded (fleshly), or spiritually minded. It’s his or her choice. To choose the former is existing; to pick the latter is living. The Prodigal Son got out of his dilemma and back to living, when he started thinking spiritual thoughts.
This runs true throughout the scripture. David tells us in the Old Testament book of Psalms, it was when he started to think on his ways that things began to turn around. And Peter in the New Testament, like the Prodigal, we’re told, “...when he thought thereon.” That is the moment when God’s heavenly sunlight broke through the dark clouds in his soul!
God is not going to do our thinking for us. That’s why he gave us a brain. But He does tell us how to think, so that we may have an inward, tranquil life. I admonish each of my readers to, as Paul said, “…think on these things.”
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