Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Jeremiah 18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart .   How sad! The people of God chose to walk according to their own devices. They decided to do that which they imagined in an evil heart. This is a serious decision which God says was a …very   horrible thing . (Jeremiah 18:13)  Becaus

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Jeremiah 16:12   And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me :   ‘Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication’ is what it is called, meaning “There can be no words without images” (Aristotle). This is the imagination at work. For example, when someone hears the phrase “red roses fo

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Jeremiah 13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.   Imagination is a part of everyday life. Without an imagination it would be impossible to imagine not having an imagination. Without imagination art wou

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them  to do; but they did them  not.   Jeremiah wrote more about the imagination than any other writer of the Bible, but these were not the prophet’s words, they were the words of

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Jeremiah 9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them :   Upon reading the verses surrounding today’s it is clear that no good comes to those who walk after the imagination of their own heart. However this is the climate in which we seem to live. People make outrageous and unprovable claims as authoritative and ge

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels  and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward .   Consider what the Lord says:   But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be we

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart .   This is how the believers in the Lord today should be. We should not walk any more after the imagination of an evil heart. In order for this

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   December 17 Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief ,   Proverbs 6: 16–19 lists six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to Him. One of these things is An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations…   The importance of the state of the heart cannot be overstated. The heart greatly influences the thought

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   December 16 1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee :   King David is asking the Lord God to do an amazing thing. He is asking the Lord to keep something in the imagination of the thoughts of the hearts of His people. In this pray

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   December 15 1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever .   “You don’t understand.”  Probably not,

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   December 14 Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware .   To better understand today’s verse consi

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Deuteronomy 29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst :   The above verse is a portion of a sermon by Moses instructing the Hebrews about the Law of God. Evidently, there were those in the Old Testament times that ha

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.   How sobering. God says that … the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth . I thought I was the onl

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was  great in the earth, and that  every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually . Notice the words “ every imagination ,” such an indictment seems impossible. That every imagination was evil continually is unbelievable. Yet, God’s Word says it is so, before the flood this was the case. Based upon the ti

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Philippians 3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more :   Paul goes on to say, Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness whi

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   1 Corinthians 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil ;   The word “evil” is used 569 times in the Bible. Love is only used 281 times, charity only 24 times, even the word peace is used 169 times less than the word evil. However, the word “good” is used 655 times. Surely Romans 12:21 is true, Be not overcome of evil, but

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   1 Corinthians 10:12  Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall .   I once read a story of a woman who was teaching her daughter to cook. They were preparing a roast for a big Sunday lunch. The mom cut off about two or three inches of meat from the end of the roast and threw it away. The daughter, who was always full of questions, asked why she cut the end

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so  is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart  is not with thee .   That which a person thinks in their mind, and what they think in their heart are not necessarily the same thing. The man spoken of in this verse has a thought in his heart, yet he communicates something else altogether with his words. By reading the verses

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   Psalms 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art  my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God .   This was written by a king. King David. Of all the people in the world the Lord God would certainly think upon a king; especially the king of His people, the nation of Israel. However, David did not write this from the perspective of a king. He w

Minding Your Thoughts A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life   December 5 2 Samuel 18:27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings .   The Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 4:13, … I believed, and therefore have I spoken :… We speak of that which we think. The watchman thought that that the man he saw runn