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Is Interior LIfe More Important? Change our thoughts will change our life. As we think so we are. As a society thinks so is a society. As the human race thinks so is our environment. Can we really control our thoughts? Not really. But, we can say yes or no to them. We can find better and better thoughts to choose to think. Believe it or not the scripture actually tells us to choose to think upon anything that is true, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is just, whatever has a good report. Can our thoughts create? Science says so. Jesus did it. Scripture implies so. Have you ever looked at someone and they suddenly turned around and looked back at you? It all begins with our interior life, but it does not end there. It goes on and on. WE think our life into what it is. We think our world into what it is. We think ourselves into heaven or else. Changing our thoughts changes our life, our world, our relationships, our marriage, our work, our self respect, and you name it. In the end of a project is the thought of its beginning. The tree is in the seed, and in the tree is the seed. We can choose which thoughts we are going to focus on. We can not stop the flow of negative and positive thoughts that are piped into our minds every day. Scarcity thoughts bring scarcity. Abundant thoughts bring abundance. The Lord is not the only creator. Being made in His image, we also are creators. Sow a thought reap an act. Sow an act reap a habit. Sow a habit reap a character. Sow a character reap a destiny. History is a record of the destiny's of individuals and societies that all began with their thoughts and continue with a hallelujah chorus or crying and silence. Rome fell from within, not from without. This empire began with a very strong focus on family. It disappeared when it lost its focus on family and humanity. No empire that thinks well in its interior ever falls from without. When its interior thinking becomes rotten, the environment comes to consume them. In Noah's day, the thought of society were evil daily. The environment consumed them in a flood. The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah rise clear to Heaven. The environment rained sulfur down on them and the ensuing consuming fire destroyed them, perhaps mercifully so. Our interior heaven or hell is revealed to the world in our outwardly visible life. We can hide our thoughts for a while but not for long. Business, friendships, marriage, societies, nations, are build on thoughts and crumble on thoughts. Can we do something about it. Yes, the good news is we can. We can find the best thoughts possible and no matter the stream of destructive thoughts the devil throws at us, we can choose to ignore them and making the better thoughts our own, express them in our actions. Personally I would start with the thought of God, add prayer and respect and express them in actions. 
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Right on brother  Shalom
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2/16/2012 11:46 am |
A case in point of how well thoughts really do work out, in the vein of "things becoming as we think about things"- I remember the "skylab" stories from the mid and late 70's. There was some sort of problem with the machinery with the result being a decaying orbit with danger of the space debris doing much harm to humans if it came down. There was a group of people who truly believed that prayer, meditation and supplication would stop the orbital decay and keep the machine in space where it belonged and that their "fervent faith and prayers" would be answered for the good of all mankind. To them, the very idea of failure to preserve the station in space was simply a matter of their thoughts being capable of effecting what ever they focused upon and creating the outcome desired. So far as is known the skylab is till up there. "thinking literally changes things" must certainly be true.
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A case in point of how well thoughts really do work out, in the vein of "things becoming as we think about things"- I remember the "skylab" stories from the mid and late 70's. There was some sort of problem with the machinery with the result being a decaying orbit with danger of the space debris doing much harm to humans if it came down. There was a group of people who truly believed that prayer, meditation and supplication would stop the orbital decay and keep the machine in space where it belonged and that their "fervent faith and prayers" would be answered for the good of all mankind. To them, the very idea of failure to preserve the station in space was simply a matter of their thoughts being capable of effecting what ever they focused upon and creating the outcome desired. So far as is known the skylab is till up there. "thinking literally changes things" must certainly be true.
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2/18/2012 7:05 am |
OOPS. I checked it out. Skylab crashed back to earth anyway. Hit in western Austrailia back in late 70's. So I guess everything is a matter of faith and confirmation. We can believe and believe and believe- but for the sake of sanity- there should always be confirmation. Let's all believe we're rich and live that way. Watch as our checks magically clear the bank and our creditcards are good enough for a new car every other weekend. (send me a $10,000 gift today "just because you can". Faith without works- is dead. (direct quote from you know who.)
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OOPS. I checked it out. Skylab crashed back to earth anyway. Hit in western Austrailia back in late 70's. So I guess everything is a matter of faith and confirmation. We can believe and believe and believe- but for the sake of sanity- there should always be confirmation. Let's all believe we're rich and live that way. Watch as our checks magically clear the bank and our creditcards are good enough for a new car every other weekend. (send me a $10,000 gift today "just because you can". Faith without works- is dead. (direct quote from you know who.)
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