Phillipians 4:8

Hop on over to Stef's blog because she is a giving away a book about this challenging verse:

Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."

To me, this means that we constantly need to take our thoughts captive and replace the negative voices, images in our mind, grumbling, doubtfulness, etc... with the truth of God's word which is constantly right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praise-worthy. Of course, MUCH easier said than done. This verse also, to me, means that we need to be EXTREMELY careful what we let into our hearts and minds. What am I listening to? What am I watching? How am I speaking? Who am I hanging out with? Because if we are letting a bunch of garbage in, then guess what's going to come out - GARBAGE? Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks! So the starting point is the mind...what you think, what you dwell on and what you allow in. I love that Phillipians is so specific as to what our minds need to focus on daily.

Check out Stef's place to enter to win a copy of this book - just make sure you send it to me after you read it IF you win!!! )