Thoughts and Attitudes

DEVOTION HEBREWS THOUGHTS AND ATTITIDES Heb 4:12-13 12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. NIV If this doesn’t get our minds spinning, what will? Whether we are ready or not the Word of God judges the thoughts and attitudes of our heart, our mind, our very being. That means what is deep within us and that not a single other person on the earth could possibly ever know about us. It is interesting to note that is it not God who judges, us, but His Word. True, nothing is hidden from His sight, and everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of God, and will must give an account for our life. But if we keep this within the context of believing God and following Him wherever he leads, us, and not being like the children of Israel who refused and were disobedient and thus died in the wilderness, the account we must give is whether or not we believe or if we refuse to believe. All people will have to give that account. But for us who believe and accept the Bible as the inspired Word of God, that every word is God-breathed, we have far more to consider than those who do not believe. As we read His Word we understand it and see how it applies to our lives. We accept the correction is makes in our character, in our thinking, in our lifestyle. We accept the exposure of our sin and repent, trying to resist those temptations which war against our soul. We know that God forgives us, due to our faith in Jesus Christ and our asking and repenting. We know that even after being Born Again, sin still creeps into our being and He is faithful to forgive us, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Yet His Word still is doing work in our lives, it still cuts deep into us, exposing even more areas we need repair of. It works in more than the outside where others see, it works our very thoughts. What do we think about? What kind of thought life do we have? Are we always thinking about what is pure and holy? Do we ever get distracted in our thoughts by things we should not be? What about our attitudes? That appears to be pointed as to how we think about other people. If we get upset with others, what does the Word say about that? If we get angry with others, or hateful, or jealous, envious, bitter, alone with a host of other feeling toward them, what does the Word of God say? Our thoughts and attitudes, what do we do with them? How do we deal with them? We have to examine them, or rather the Word of God examine them and be open to seeing who we really are, accepting who we are, and allowing God to work in our inner being. Hopefully we will experience the change we need to, that we will be willing, to accept His correction, His direction, His leading and we will not become stubborn and disobedient. It is about our thoughts and attitudes.