CAPTIVE THOUGHTS In the story of Peter Pan, Peter is in the children’s bedroom. They had seen him fly and they too wanted to fly. They have tried it from the floor and from jumping off the beds but can’t fly. Wendy and John ask Peter, “How do you do it?” Peter replies, “You just think lovely, wonderful thoughts and they lift you up in the air.” Do our thoughts lift us up or put us down? Do they bring out the best or the worst in us? Emerson said, “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Albert Einstein said, “I want to know the thoughts of God, the rest are details.” A thought is an idea, a concept, a belief, an opinion, a judgment, an evaluation, a conviction, or a feeling. We need to “take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ” (2 Cor 10:5). That means to be Christian in the way we think about life. Any thought we have that is contrary to the truth Jesus taught needs to be taken captive and not allowed to dominate our minds and made to obey the truth of the Jesus Christ as taught in Scripture. When writer Anthony Burgess was 39, his doctors found a brain tumor and gave him a year to live. He made a vow to write 10 novels in that last year so his widow could live on the royalties. At the end of the year he had completed five and a half novels and the brain tumor had completely disappeared. He lived to age 76 and wrote about 50 novels and at least 15 nonfiction works. He was so prolific even his publisher was unsure of the exact number of his books at the time of his death.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:54:11 +0000
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