Think on These Things

In the Secret, we are taught to keep our minds clear of the troubling thoughts that would negate our efforts to move in a certain direction. To some, such an action may seem at best difficult, to most, impossible, because they are not accustomed to going a different direction with their thoughts than that which carries them throughout the day, as a current, moved on by the noise around them confirming the worst in most cases.

Unless and until we learn to make our mind subject to our desires, and not run on autopilot, being fed by the white noise around us, we may never know the joy that can be felt by simply being still and seeing God in the little things around us.

In Phillipians I found a passage that jumped out at me this time around because it tells me just what this is trying to say.

Philip. 4: 6-8
6 ^aBe ^bcareful for nothing; but in every thing by ^cprayer and supplication with ^dthanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the ^apeace of God, which passeth all ^bunderstanding, shall ^ckeep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are ^atrue, whatsoever things are ^bhonest, whatsoever things are ^cjust, whatsoever things are ^dpure, whatsoever things are ^elovely, ^fwhatsoever things are of good report; if there be any ^gvirtue, and if there be any praise, ^hthink on these things.

See the good around you, think on these things, and while there will persist in the background, things that might be objectionable, know this; that you can do more to help those around you by maintaining a clear vision of the good and showing them the way, than by seeing things as they see them, and getting caught up in the fear of daily drudgery.

There is no way to solve a problem, any problem, on the same level of thinking that created that problem. Remembering that God is abundant, and that by giving thanks in all things, we begin to see the hand of God in all things, allows us to see that the fear that most feel is only one possible response to a world as ready to bless the lives of all as to take from them.

I see that now, and shake my head in bewilderment that it took so long for me.