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Quote for Today
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
- Carl Sagan
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WORD FROM SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY
Proverbs 23:7 (NASB®)
“As he thinks within himself, so he is.”
REFLECTION
OUR THOUGHTS SHOULD BE GODLY AND FOCUSSED ON JESUS
Scientists have determined by measuring brain activity, the average person has over six thousand distinct thoughts every day. Our thoughts are important because they determine our attitudes, our words, and our actions. Our minds are like canvases with many painters splashing paint onto them—the people we hear, the media we consume, the words we read, and more. Over the course of a day, we will have thoughts that are godly and thoughts that are ungodly. Isaiah said that God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts as the heavens are higher than the earth (Isaiah 55:8-9). Paul advised the Romans to be about the business of renewing their minds because he knew they would choose to direct their minds toward the things of the world or the things of God (Romans 12:2). We are given the assignment, not just to accept every thought that comes to us, but to filter them, evaluate them, then accept and nurture the ones that promote godliness and reject the ones that don’t.
- Allen Jackson Ministries
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OUR THOUGHTS SHOULD BE GODLY AND FOCUSSED ON JESUS
“A leech has two daughters, and both are named "Give me!" There are four things that are never satisfied: the world of the dead, a woman without children, dry ground that needs rain, and a fire burning out of control.”
Proverbs 30:15-16
“Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."”
Genesis 1:26
"Jesus gives us a new commandment: to love as He has loved us. Begin to love this commandment as the most precious legacy of his heart and as his request to you. Then it will be easy for you to follow it, for love makes the hardest things easy and sweetens everything."
Mother Basilea Schlink
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