Posted: Jan 5, 08 12:50am
Psa 26: 2: Test me, O LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind.
Bev Robinson, who is doing a series on Quantum Physics, sent this yesterday. I have not been following the series but this caught my eye. "If you bombard neuron brain cells over and over with negative thoughts, when they divide they make two times the receptors to accept more negative thoughts---likewise the same with positive thoughts."
I know nothing about the human mind except that I own one. And I do get the point she was making which leads me to close examination as to whether I do all I can do to keep my mind healthy and full of positivity. It helps that I have a narrow life, but I do indeed feed it all day long with uplifting and inspiring things. I am not only what I eat, but I am what I think.
We make choices all day long. Many are now done by rote and habit. If your pattern has always been to put yourself down you are now deeply ingrained in that thought process, it may have never crossed your mind to change this negative approach pattern. Or you might have just fallen into a deep well of depression or bitterness and now you are convinced life gets no better. It would be nice if we had a robot alerting us with the words, "Danger Will Robinson." We would catch ourselves immediately and attempt to break the harsh bondage of a dark cloud hanging over our head.
Isn't God much more caring than a metal robot? We do have God who does hear and examine our hearts and minds. Psa 40:5 "Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward." He is thinking about you right now. He is loving you as a beloved child. He is concerned why you cannot break free from such venomous thoughts. They are not in His nature. Why are they in yours?
What if the Garden of Eden were still available for a morning stroll and as you walked about you heard the voice of God say, "What's on your mind?" Remember He already knows and it is for your benefit that He asks. There is no last minute cramming for the exam as He tests and tries you. Does He then grade on His accounting scroll a zero or a star next to your name?
Thoughts do have a way of running away on us. The average person thinks about twelve thousand thoughts per day. A deeper thinker puts forth fifty thousand thoughts daily. How many are they about God our Creator? When we become a new creature in Christ, the flesh begins to cease from the lust of sin. It now becomes our challenge to fill our mind and heart with the good and relevant things that feeds our brain cells, and dispose of those that diminish our capacity to have the mind of Christ dwell richly in us.
God never promised me a rose garden and I see daily that I have much work left to accomplish before I leave this earth. Will you also take the words presented to us today at heart, as a personal challenge, to become and stay mentally healthy? It is what the Lord would want.
