Where your mind and thoughts are that is where your heart will be.

 

Where your mind and thoughts are that is where your heart will be.

 

If you think about work all the time that is where your heart will be.

 

If you think about school, the kids, the house, the activities of the day, your problems in any area of life, the next sporting event, last night’s TV show, people you have seen, the what ifs of life.

 

If you constantly rehearse over and over again in my minds repeated thoughts of who, what, where, when, why, how’s of life. That is where your heart will be.

 

Our mind and its activity control the heart

 

If our mind is on loving and serving the Lord, then that is where our thoughts will be and correspondingly our action.

 

Action follows thoughts born out of the mind. What you think about is what you will become.

 

If you think negative thoughts you will become a negative person. If you think only of work, you will become a workaholic. If you think of loving and serving others, you will love and serve others. Your mind controls your actions. The mind is the great incubator of action.

 

Nothing happens by accident or chance in our lives, we create the world around us. Want to be loved, love first, want to receive a letter, send one out first, want to receive kindness, be kind first. Want to draw close to you positive successful people, be a positive successful person.

 

Our actions and behavior send signals to those we come in contact with on what we think about none of the actions we take are taken without the mind’s awareness and control. We are what we think about. You control what you are going to say, think or do. You have the choice (free will) to do what you will do, whether it will be good or evil, success of failure, gain or loss, positive or negative, love or hate, light or dark. The good Lord has given us complete control over our mind and its thoughts. There is no mystery in this. We become what we think about. Our actions are a manifestation of our accumulated thoughts.

 

Why do you think that Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 – Pray continuously. Because Matthew knew in Matthew 26:41 – The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. The Lord knew our bodies would be weak and be given over to temptation (sin). I had a hard time with this until just now.

 

My parents did not sin, or did they?

 

Let’s go with the axiom that because my parents were married, the two became one flesh. I was not conceived in sin. But who was conceived in sin, Cain and Able? Eve was the first person to sin against the Lord when she ate of fruit in the Garden of Eden. Adam followed her. They were the first to sin and bring sin into this world and the beget (from their original seed) all that will live and have lived in this world. We are all genetically tied back to the creation of the world. I believe that men will be punished for their own sin and not Adam’s transgression. We were not conceived by our parents in sin as some religions believe. Some religious belief because of their genetic tie back to Adam and Eve that we were all conceived in sin and thus a need to baptize infants shortly after birth. So that if they die as infants or young children they will go to heaven. There is nothing in the bible that tells us to perform infant baptisms. The light has been turned on and I can now see clearly that I was not conceived in my parents sin nor was I conceived into sin because of Adam’s transgression. Just because Adam and Eve were the first to sin, does not make me, one of their genetic biological descendants a sinner. I was born with the spirit of God within me. There is a big difference between our biological genetic make-up and our spiritual make up.

 

I may be a biological descendant of Adam and Eve, but I am not a spiritual descendant. We baptize to cleanse the spirit not the body.

 

Sin that affects the body will be carried with us to the grave but sin that affects the spirit we carry for all eternity.

 

There is a big distinction between the body and the spirit

 

The Lord has given our mind control over the body and the spirit. Do not let your mind deceive you, or lead you into believing false doctrines. Do not let Satan get a foothold in your mind, when he does he controls your thoughts, words and actions. He has you doing things that bring pleasure to him and pain, misery and suffering to you. We need to make sure that we are thinking, doing, and saying things which are pleasing to the Lord. Remember our enemy Satan’s plan for you is to bring you down in the depths of hell with him. That is why it is said misery loves company.

 

People who (have not) have a tendency to despise people (who have.)

 

There is a constant tug of war in this society between the haves and the have-nots and I am not just referring to money. I am referring to covetousness and envy. The tenth commandment in God’s law is you shall not covet your neighbor’s house, spouse or anything that belongs to your neighbor. Exodus 20:17.

 

Covet – to desire enviously that which belongs to another, crave.

 

Envy – discontented desire for someone else’s possessions or advantages. An object of such a feeling.

 

Our society sets us up from birth to covet or want what other people have.

 

Our whole system of taxation is a redistribution of wealth and power. The government believes it has the God given right and authority to take from us that which we created by the fruits of our labor and use as they deem appropriate without our input. We have no say on how or where our money is used. It goes into one gigantic pit and thus is funneled out by a select few who have been chosen and wisely use these funds. The problem with this is that those who are chosen are typically corrupt or self-serving. A member in congress from Oklahoma does not have my personal best interest in mind when he goes before congress to vote on a bill. From there our leaders have pitted the have with the have-nots, the wealthy against the poor, the advantaged against the disadvantage, the republicans against the democrats. Is there no understanding why we are such a coveted and envious society – just look at our leaders. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, greed, corruption, lie, cheat, steal are the anthems of our government. How does the government expect people not to steal from others when that is the very impression we have of our government. None of us believe that the government is entitled to a share of our wages.

 

I have heard it said before that the reason the government want to put people in jail who steal, distribute drugs, murder, rob, pillage, plunder, destroy, and is that they don’t want any competition. They want to be the only game in town. How can you have a tax system which is not voluntary? And expect people to not feel as though they have been stolen from.

 

Our leaders are responsible for setting the tone of those they govern.

 

Love begets love, greed begets greed, envy begets envy, theft begets stealing, murder begets murder, evil begets evil, darkness begets darkness, light begets light, truth, and honesty begets truth and honesty. What you dish out is what you will get back. If our government wants theft to stop, stop stealing. If they want murder to stop, stop murdering. If they want the distribution of drugs to stop, stop distributing them. Our societal ills are a result of those who govern our society. You want to stop depression, drunkenness, alcoholism, drugs, endless pursuit of self-destruction – begin to love and serve. JFK had it wrong; he said “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” That is wrong our government should be saying ask not what you can do for your government but how can we love and serve you better.

 

On our money it reads “In God we trust.”

 

That could not be further from the truth. When this government lost its allegiance to God as our spiritual, moral, ethical leader and started depending on godless men to run this country, our country went to hell. We say we live in a free market economy, that our economy is based on competition. While this may be true we still operate on envy, greed and covetousness. The fact that we are a Godless society leads and will continue to lead our country into utter ruin, despair and destruction. The people we elect to congress and the senate or president is critical to the moral and ethical fiber of our nation. Elect power hungry, self-serving, greed capitalist, ill moral, unethical, dishonest, unjust and we will become a nation just like that. Our nation will become what it thinks about just as we do. There is a movement to get rid of God in the schools and within any state and federal run program or institution. This is a gigantic mistake of epic proportion. What we are doing is training and instructing generation after generation the ways and methodology of Satan, which will lead to the ruin and utter demise of our society and lead people into hell.

 

What can we do to stop this runaway train?

 

Give our life over to Jesus.

 

We are the light of the world Matthew 5:14, 16 – Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Heavenly Father.

 

We are called to share the message of our Lord with all men. Matthew 28:19, 20 – Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.

 

We can have the goal to change the world in which we live. We can also influence the world we live in.

 

We need to live our life with dignity, honor, morality, honesty, truth, love, service, integrity, respect, obedience, compassion, sympathy, not judging, ethically, justly, fairly, openly so that the light of Christ shines wherever we walk with every spoken word and with every thought.

 

We can make a difference; we can plant seeds of love wherever we are. It all begins with me. I have been called to spread the good news and spread the good news I will. An action is worth a thousand words. Actions speak volumes about your heart’s desire. Have love and service continually in your mind, pray continuously, see joy in everything, and let your light shine. Thank you Jesus for this bit of insight, I love you Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for my many blessings.