Sunday, July 8, 2012

How to beat Worrying! Philippians 3-4

Is there a better formula ever written that helps to keep a quiet mind bathed in peace than Philippians 4:8-9?   Paul gives us the exact thought process we have to have when we tend to worry, imagine and dwell on things that disrupt our spirit.   To have a peace that only God can provide he tells us to think only about things that are true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, good repute and worthy of praise.  If we fill our mind with these things we can be assured of a peace that only God can provide.   In the midst of trial and tribulation if I think about these things I can rest assured that God is in control.    What Paul has described for us to "think" about is the character and mind of Christ.   We are to dwell on His majesty and that will enable us to fight of our fear and our discontent and our worry.  It is when we allow our minds to think about untruth; when we dwell on imagination rather fact; when we consider false reports or unverified reports and not good reports - this is when we lose our peace.  We worry and fret over things we know little about.  But, when we, by faith, dwell on what we do know (the character of Christ) we can rest in our spirits.   If your spirit is a flair right now, calm it by changing what you are thinking about.   Worrying is a sin that attacks what we think about.  We worry because we are not doing what Philippians 4:8-9 tells us to do.    

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