A very cheerful hello to you, readers! Hey. Are you able to smile from a standing, sitting, or a laying down position today? You can? That’s great! Now have you ever tried smiling when your boss is thanking you for volunteering to come in to work on a Saturday, and you never said a word about wanting to volunteer? Ah ha! I thought so!!! Waitaminute! I know I can’t talk. I have never tried to either. But I’ll keep studying Smiling Kung Fu until I can overpower an unhappy frown with a smile.
Smiling, while in the middle of a frowning type of situation, takes a special above average human quality, and a whole lot of serious practice. But I want to warn you though. Trying this kind of smiling can be very rewarding, but sometimes has the side effect of making people think you might be a little bit goofy.
Got a kadoozy subject for you today. -Another pop-up-idea from the place where heavenly revelations come from. My keyboard is at the ready. Jumping to type-warp speed factor one, in 3…2…1…! Engage!
We all know what a thought is, right? Now before you say duh, I knew you knew what a thought is. I just asked to provoke a thought. Was I successful?
In your whole life, did you ever think about where our thoughts come from? And did you ever think that our thoughts are directly connected to our nature? Well get ready for a rollercoaster ride. Because the answers are going to be a thriller diller!
Yep. By now you have probably already answered that our brain is where we manufacture our thoughts while we’re awake. But what you may not have ever thought about is what influences our thoughts, and what our thoughts can become.
Detective A. Blogger here, at your service. I’m with the Human Thoughts Division. I’m only too glad to walk you through the case. Our suspect at the scene is a fifteen year old high school boy named Darian Ridell Roberts.
From the rebellious boys Darian is hanging around with, here in the park today, who are all currently breaking windows, I have been able to figure out the kind of thoughts Darian has been influenced by. For one thing, Darian’s thought concerning what kind of clothing he is fond of. The suspect is wearing a bandana on his head, a black hoody, skater pants, and has small rocks in his pockets. As we say down at the precinct, you are the company you keep.
Let me break in on Detective Blogger here for a second. Our thoughts are influenced by what we see, hear, or desire. -And becomes accepted or rejected by whatever our dominate nature happens to be. In other words, if we have a stronger nature that’s willing to follow lawlessness, lawless thoughts are manufactured in a person’s mind very often, and received by this nature as reasonable and acceptable very often. And if a person’s stronger nature is righteousness, oppositely that person’s mind manufactures righteous thoughts more often, and more often is received by this nature as reasonable and acceptable. A righteous mind-set chooses more often to reject lawlessness, and a lawless mind set often chooses to reject righteousness.
Hey. Let’s rejoin Detective Blogger, as Darian and his friends finish carrying out their thoughts for putting air holes in public windows.
“The clues are all here,” Detective Blogger says, running towards the boys to stop them. He thinks to himself that the thought of breaking windows had to have been suggested to Darian by one or more of his fellow lawbreakers. -Which suggested to Detective Blogger that, though Darian knew that there was a high risk of getting caught, he reasoned that the thought of breaking out windows was acceptable and reasonable enough for him to participate. -Not to mention the fact that breaking out windows in the park’s maintenance building he thought would be fun!
Fast forwarding. Detective Blogger and members of the Human Thoughts Division rounded up the boys without much trouble. As for the boys, they were not very happy to see their thought work out this way! They had no idea that a thought of theirs could backfire quite this quickly! They all regretted that they hadn’t thought to pair their window breaking thought with a thought about escaping.
Now I’m very curious to know what you think. At what point do you think Darian could have saved himself the trouble of going on a detention vacation?
Before you answer, let me say this first. It’s possible for people with a stronger righteous nature to temporarily switch their nature. How is that possible??? That’s easy. By making the mistake of compromising. Changing their mind-set, just long enough to achieve a personal desire, then telling themself they’ll never do that again. After which, they try to go back to righteous living without owning up to their compromise. Compromising then becomes a secret part of that person’s righteous nature.
Of course compromising a righteous mind-set, just to get what we want, is very habit forming. You could even say addictive. A person will find themselves compromising again and again if they don’t rehab their way back to a real righteous nature. Please please please, pretty please, notice that nowhere in this post did I type the words we have to try to be perfect. We all know that would be the greatest waste of time for anybody to try to do! But you might agree with me, it’s a really good thing to try to be as sincerely righteous as you can be. You know, I feel it’s my duty to tell everyone, before I type another letter, that real righteousness comes from a personal relationship with God.
Hey. Let me just tag everyone with an info jolt. With just one thought a burglary can get started. -Or a broken marriage, or a theft, or even a war. If a person let’s a bad thought get loose, oh boy! The best way to keep that from happening is to monitor our thoughts, and keep the bad ones from becoming a living and growing idea inside of us, and to keep them from becoming a part of us.
Assassinations all started with just a single thought. To die for the sins of the world started with just a thought. Pretty big comparison huh? I thought I would just sneak it in.
We are what we think like. Try as hard as we might, it’s kinda hard to hide the way we think for very long. At some point our thoughts make it to our throats, our hands and feet and eyes, to become words, actions, or expressions. My hope is that we all get cautious about what we’re thinking. It could mean the difference between us having a good day or a day of disaster.
Before I go, what was your answer for at what point, do you think, could Darian have saved himself the trouble of going on a detention vacation? All answers are good. But here’s my answer. I think it was at the very second that Darian thought that breaking out windows was cool.
Thanks again for spending time reading this blog. You are very much appreciated! May God help you so much you can see it as a miracle.