Think About It

As girls, my sister and I shared a room. We had perpendicular bunk-beds, which were generally great, except for the occasion or two where my sister had nightmares and would throw her 6 lb. realistic-proportioned plastic babydoll right onto my stomach from her top bunk...but overall, they were good! Unable to appropriately meet our bedtime of 8:00 with sleep every night, we would often stay up talking until much later. Usually, we discussed the events of the day and how we felt about them, or what we were excited about for the next day. Sometimes we would discuss a movie we had watched or somewhere we had gone, whatever came to mind, really. There were times, however, when we did not know what to talk about, and would fall silent. "Are you awake?" "Yes. Are you?" "Yes. Do you want to talk about something?" "Sure, what do you want to talk about?" "I don't know. Let's think about what we can talk about." "Okay...got anything?" "No. Let's think about what we should think about." "Okay!" Yes, this is the conversation we had when I was 9 and she was 7. Don't judge. I reflect on this every year or two, smiling as I realize how cute we were! But, of course, that was only because we were kids. Obviously nobody has this conversation as a mature adult. But maybe we should. Proverbs 23:7 says, "For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Luke 6:45: "A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart." 2 Corinthians 10:5: "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." Life and death are in the power of our tongues (Prov 18:21), so let us be sure to take the time to think about what we talk about and to even think about what we think about! Daddy, Thank you for giving us minds of our own. Unfortunately, these minds tend to wander. Help us to take captive every thought and make it obedient to you so that what we have stored up in our hearts lines up with the Truth. Then we know that what we speak will be glorifying to you. Help us to think before we speak, and even before we think. Give us the wisdom to discern the right thing to say at the right time. May you be lifted up and exalted in all our thoughts and words. In the name of Jesus, Amen