"Finally brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."Philippians 4:8
What we have going on in the picture here is Obi-Wan Kenobi waving his hand at the storm troopers using the "force". In the end of the video he says using the force he manipulated the mind of the soldier. An interesting concept is it not? I can only think that if the soldier knew what happened he would feel completely powerless to have his thoughts manipulated. What a powerless feeling that would be but also if we can control our own thoughts what a EMpowering feeling! It's easy to think that our minds are an untamable beast that we are powerless to defend against the filth in the world. When we look at Philippians 4: verse 8 however that's exactly what Paul is saying! Woah what? I can do that?I mean really last time I checked I'm not a Jedi who with a wave of my hand can tell myself what to think can I? Well in 4:8 thats what Paul tells us we can and are called to do. The cool part about this is we don't need to use the force luckily......we can still wave our hands if we want to but we do't need to. Paul tells us to dwell on things that are honorable(dignified), right(innocent), pure (not defiled or free from sin), lovely ( agreeable to the word of God), of good repute(well reported of ex.good testimony), excellence (of Moral goodness), and worthy of praise. These things are what we need to dwell on and when we do our minds are not dwelling on things that don't honor the lord! When we control our thinking and take every thought that we have captive thats when we can can say is this something that glorifies God or not? If not we rebuke it and throw it away and if it we cling to it.
Marian Wright Edelman put it like this:
“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”
With our thoughts this should be our attitude as well. If we don't like the way we are thinking (worldy) then change it! We have an obligation to change it and the way we do it is capturing one thought at a time.
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