Right Thinking

How does one combat thinking wrong?  Think right!  How does one know what is right?  Go to a source that you know is true and seek to know that truth.  What is truth?  Jesus had just told Pilate that He was born and came into the world to testify to the truth.  He said, “Everyone on the side of truth listens to Me.”  Thus Pilate’s famous question that still lingers in the pseudo intellectual mind today, “What is truth?”

Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.  No one comes to the Father except by Me.”  Yesterday our guest pastor preached his evangelist message, “Why I Believe in God in an Age of Skepticism”.  He said that people, in regard to a belief system must do three things:  Know – Believe – Trust.  He was addressing his sermon to the skeptic, both agnostic and atheist.  However, as I prayed this morning over a mentally tormenting issue in my head, I began to apply this principle.  As I ended my prayer, the issue became less intense and the “truth set me free” from wrong thinking.  Thus, thinking right won over wrong thinking.   Because of Christ, I have access to God during these times.  I must run as though my life depended on my communication with Him.  And it does!

Right thinking for a believer is that we are saved by grace from our sin that separated us from the Creator, God.  We are here to honor and glorify Him.  Let’s not lose that perspective.  Trials will come; God’s Word stands true and powerful through them all.  We must persevere and as we combat our own sinful thinking, we gain strength through that victory to teach other saints and bless unbelievers with the good news.