God’s Thoughts

How precious to me are your thoughts, God!

Psalm 139:17

One of the most important lessons I have discovered is that nothing is as powerful as a mind made up. It has the power to control the way your day—as well as your life—goes. We really don’t have to think every train of thought that pops into our minds. Just like a real train, we can jump trains and even jump tracks. We don’t have to let the train control where we go mentally and emotionally.

We have the power to control what we think. And consequently, we have the power to control who we become, because we are what we think, whether or not we choose to learn how to consciously control our thoughts: “As he thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7 AMP).

How crucial it is for you to manage your mind and feed it daily with the thoughts of God from His Word. Learn to manage your mind, so your mind doesn’t manage you. As you hop on trains of thought, pay attention to your destination today. Jump tracks and change trains every time you need to. Consciously choose the trains that take you to God’s precious and life-giving thoughts.

Lord, I choose to think on whatever is true, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy, just like Philippians 4:8 says. I choose my train of thought.