Thursday's Thoughts-Training Your Thoughts

                  Several years ago, a dear friend gave me a book some of you may be familiar with, Caterpillars or Butterflies by Sister Jane McWhorter. It has been quite awhile since I read it so when I came across it I decided I needed to reread it. Let me encourage you to put this next on your list if you’ve never read it. It is excellent! With today’s topic being Thursday’s thoughts, I think it is fitting to share this excerpt with you.

“Our minds are the soil in which the seeds of our thoughts grow. ‘Chance only favors the mind which is prepared’ (Louis Pasteur). We cannot think about things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report one hour a week or even one hour a day and expect to flutter like butterflies. Just as we are to pray without ceasing, so must our thoughts be constantly focused upon the right seeds.

Emerson observed: ‘A man is what he thinks about all day long.’ Long ago Plato stated the same thought when he said: ‘We become what we contemplate.’ Sir Issac Newton was the object of mockery by his neighbors because he spent hours blowing soap bubbles in his garden. Years later, when he was asked how he discovered the principle of gravitation, he replied, ‘By thinking about it all the time.’ Newton also offered this explanation of his success: ‘If I have made any improvement in the sciences, ,it is owing more to patient attention than to anything else.’ Just as Newton thought about the soap bubbles as he went about his other tasks, so must we constantly fill our minds with the right thoughts. We should train our subconscious thoughts to think about these things even when our conscious thought processes are busy with other ideas. Too many Christians take the Word of God just as they do bad-tasting medicine. They tolerate it when they have to do so just to get it over with and out of the way. They have never known the delight that the psalmist experienced as he meditated upon the Law of God day and night (Psalm 1:2).

(p.23)

So are you delighting in the Word or just tolerating it like bad medicine?