We serve a God who thinks about us continually and as His word declares HIS thoughts are filled with peace and great expectations. Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” We read in the writings of the Psalms (songs) telling us many of the writings of King Daivd along with the chief musicians, and others, ending with or included in the psalm, with the word(s) “Selah”. A biblical musical term, (to pause and think), following the refrain or chorus of a psalm, literally meaning, “think about that”. God wants us to pause and think about His Love, His goodness for us all, but especially when the stability of life becomes unstable. I believe one of the best ways to invite the peace of God into our lives is to read and meditate on the word of God and literally think of what the Lord has done for us all, Joshua 1:8. The Apostle Paul said it a little differently to the church at Phillipi in Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
But in Proverbs 23:7 these words of wisdom place the responsibility of success or failure right between our ears, “For as a man (mankind) thinketh in his heart, so he is.”
Yet, it is the Apostle Paul who places the icing on the cake as he writes to the church at Ephesus in Ephesians 3:20 “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, …”
(penny for your thoughts)
Dr. Laney