Man I'm happy!

Jesus is alive and well. He breathes in and leads his church.

I'm on my way to Christ likeness on account of his dedication to me. Thank you, Lord.
You know we'd all be happy more if we thought about stuff like that more.

It is critical to guard what enters our minds. What we think about shapes the depths of our beings. Imagine what Jesus was like on his insides. What did he walk around thinking about? What kinds of thoughts filled his moments? They were good things. From the inside out he was good. That's what made him the man that we see walk the gospel pages. He was from his very core pure and good. His thoughts were like that.

It doesn't make sense for us to load up our heads with garbage, bad tv, books, music, movies, conversations, whatever and expect to have a flow of peace, joy and righteousness welling up from our inside.

Let's decide to fill our thoughts with little 3-5 second prayers of thankfulness to God. Our lives could change.

Some good books about this are Practicing the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence, a 17th century French monk, and Letters from a Modern Mystic by Frank Laubach, a 20th century missionary to the Philippenes. Gene Edwards and Seed Sower publishers have put together a compilation of these two books and maybe one more in a wonderfully easy read called Practicing His Presence.

Check it out.