my waking thoughts

What we wake up thinking about gets me to thinking. Yeah. I said it.

What do you wake up thinking about? It may be something that needs adjusting. How do you do that? I think it has some to do with what you are doing or thinking about when you go to sleep. I really think it has more to do with what you are consuming your life with.

I woke up this morning with these verses rolling through my mind:

Psalm 19:14 NASB

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.

Why would that be on my mind? Maybe it is because I really do care about what God says about my life. Maybe that is on my mind because it is something God wants me to care about and deal with. Both are good things.

First, the words of my mouth. Our words are important. The words toward ourselves will build our worth and fill our hearts. Then the words will come out of our mouths, and our words should be building and not tearing others down. May our words be acceptable to God and used by God for all around us.

Second, the thoughts of my heart. What rolls through my heart. Often this is the place where the things I don’t want others to know I think about. I am often shocked by those things, and that is why I need to be careful what I think and what I consume. Those things consumes what goes through my heart.

Third and finally, may those things be acceptable to God. Do I care about what God cares about? Am I listening to what He is sharing? Those answers will lead to what I wake up thinking about.

God should be seen as our rock and redeemer. Why? It is because that is who He is.

May our words and thoughts demonstrate that we believe God is God, that He is my God and that I care about what He cares about!

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