WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET?

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee” (Proverbs 23:7). “The real you is the one that carries on conversations in your mind—very apt to butter toast you have no intention of eating” (Jeb 23:7).

Somewhere this weekend in America, someone is planning to get drunk, act the fool, and commit adultery with someone’s wife. These plans are contained within a very detailed set of blueprints that are rehearsed over and over in the mind—the secret place where all sin originates. This explains the ease with which these sins are brought to "life”.

Practice makes perfect.

There is not one killer locked up in prison that didn’t first murder the victim in their head before actually shooting him dead. Thoughts conceive in the mind and if acted upon become sins in the flesh which affect our spirit, soul, and body, and for which we are responsible. No wonder the first message Jesus preached in essence was: “Change the way you’ve been thinking: My way of thinking—my perspective and power concerning all situations—is available, as of now because I have come to re-unite you to your God.” Apart from him we can not possibly think right because he is the originator of all right thinking/action: “Apart from me you can do nothing.”

Does not the Bible teach that the abstract—lusts, pride, greed, selfishness, envy—leads to the concrete: adulteries, murders, robberies, and fights? Jesus put it this way, “O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things” (Matthew 12:34-35). It is clear that our thoughts become our actions: change what is eating you—your thought diet—and you change everything about you.

“So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds” (Ephesians 4:17).

You are what you eat, physically and spiritually. You have looked into the world’s greatest mirror when you look into the thoughts of your heart and see the image they reflect.

Imagine that.

What’s in your wallet?