All human beings reflect what we carry within us, therefore, it is essential that we have thoughts of good and not bad. All the things (good and bad) that happen are the product of what was previously in someone’s mind.
For example, if a person is going to murder, they first think about the weapon they are going to use, the place where they will catch the victim, and how the corpse will disappear after the act. After planning mentally, he materializes the crime.
What I want to imply with this is that if we think of good things, we will do good things, but if our ideas are vile, we will show it with our actions.
It is necessary that our mind remains pure in the eyes of God, let’s see what the Bible says about how thoughts influence our lives.
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We must have thoughts of good and not of evil
The life of man works as follows. It all starts with your thoughts, which make you generate decisions, which have the effect of actions that lead you to certain results. How to generate good results? Having good thoughts. In other words, bad thoughts generate bad results. Proverbs 23:6 says:
“For as is his thought in his heart, so is he.”
There is a very famous phrase that says “we are what we think”. It is a quite accurate expression, for this reason, we must have thoughts of good and not of evil. What kind of thoughts dominate you? What quality are your thoughts? Do you have good or bad thoughts? How long do those thoughts last? What do you think of God? What do you think God thinks of you?
God loves us, but he won’t do what you have to do. You have to do what is available to you so that God can do what is not available to you. You do what you can, so that God can do what you cannot.
The Lord has always told us what we have to do, what is best for us, and what He will do if we comply with what He says. But he has always left the task to us to do. Deuteronomy 28:1-2 says:
“It will come to pass that if you listen attentively to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all the commandments that I command you today, then the Lord your God will also exalt you above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings will come upon you, and they will overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the Lord your God.”
God wants to bless us
If there is one reality in our hearts, it is that we long for God’s blessings. We know that we will receive them to the extent that we seek his presence. Blessings will come in addition to seeking his presence.
However, we should not look for blessings but for the God who produces them. One thing we have learned is that God longs to bless us even more than we do, but he requires us to think good thoughts and not evil ones. Jeremiah 29:11 He says:
“For I know the thoughts that I have toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you the end you expect.”
Other versions say:
“Thoughts of good and not bad, to give them a future full of well-being.”
God has only good thoughts for you, only thoughts of good. The Lord only thinks that this year will go well for you, that you will receive that blessing soon and that you will come out of that strengthened, that you will solve that problem and learn to teach others.
God only thinks of the door that will open for you, if one is closed to you. There are no evil thoughts in Him for you. Isaiah 55:8-9 He says:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”
Uniting the teachings of these two verses: God tells us that his thoughts about us are good and that they are higher than ours. The word plus is a comparative. If I say: this boy is taller than me, to know how tall the boy is, you need to know how tall I am.
What I am trying to teach you is that the starting point of God’s thoughts for your life is your own. God always thinks well of you, but how well he thinks of you depends on what you yourself are constantly thinking.
He will do more than you ask or expect
If we are made in the image and likeness of God, it means that God always thinks things through before doing them. And since he always thinks well, he does them well at all times. In Genesis 1:31 we find the following word:
“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good”
There are more than 7,000 promises in the Bible, many of them you have not received yet, but God already thought of giving them to you, do I understand? God, just like us, first thinks of something, decides it, does it and sees the results. Your thoughts will move God greatly.
Ephesians 3:20 He says:
“He who is powerful to make all things much more abundant than what we ask or understand, according to the power that acts in us.”
Another version says:
God is going to move to the extent that you have good thoughts about yourself.
Persevere in your thoughts
It is not about thinking one day is good and six bad, or a while good and 23 hours a day bad, or sometimes good and sometimes bad. The Bible says that we must persevere in the thoughts that we have about God. Isaiah 26:3 says the following:
You will keep in complete peace the one whose thought in you perseveres; because he has trusted in you.
The only way to live in peace is to persevere in the thoughts of God, and that can only be achieved by trusting Him. Keep thoughts of good and not of evil with reference to you. And also, for your complete trust in God. In proverbs 16:3 we can find the following:
“Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established.”
You have to put everything in God’s hands. If you trust Him, He will make your thoughts affirm. That means your thoughts will be good.
Discern your thoughts with the word
Hebrews 4:12 tells us:
“For the word of God is alive and effective, and sharper than any two-edged sword; and it penetrates to split the soul and the spirit, the joints and the marrow, and discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart”.
To discern is to distinguish. The word of God is the one that can help you distinguish good thoughts from bad ones, to realize good and bad thoughts. If you constantly have bad thoughts, read the word will make you discern them correctly as God teaches you. Philippians 4:8 says or next:
“For the rest, brothers, all that is true, all that is honest, all that is just, all that is pure, all that is lovely, all that is of good name; If there is any virtue, if there is something worthy of praise, think about this”.
You must have thoughts of good and not of evil. Think well of people, of what you are going through, of what is coming, think well of yourself and those around you. This is exactly what God wants you to do.
learn to think well
Psalms 1:1-3 He says:
“Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of evil, nor has he been in the way of sinners, nor has he sat in the chair of mockers; but in the law of the LORD is his delight, and in his law he meditates day and night. It will be like a tree planted by streams of water, which bears its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not fall; and everything that he does, will prosper ”.
When you ask someone for advice, you are asking them to intervene in your thoughts. You must take care with whom you associate and meditate day and night. Meditation is thinking about something in such a way that it absorbs all our thought until we come to imagine that we are living it.
To meditate is to imagine something that absorbs us so much that we come to feel that we are already living it. To have good thoughts about yourself, you must meditate on the word of God. If you do, everything you do will prosper.
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final thoughts
God exhorts us to have thoughts of good and not of evil so that we are blessed in a great way, because even if we do not believe it, we are what we think and project what we have in our hearts and in our minds.
When we materialize something, it is because we have already thought about it, therefore, we must take care of what we keep inside so that it does not affect our external self and the relationship we have with our Creator.