Thoughts are like seeds
2 Corinthians 10:6 (NKJV)
Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
We spoke yesterday about not despising the day of small beginnings, and noted that every mighty oak tree starts its journey as a tiny acorn. When we understand that everything big in our lives, whether positive or negative in context, starts small and seedlike we can begin to determine and manage some of the harvests we are continually growing.
Thoughts are like seeds – they start so seemingly small but can produce so very much. The greatest multi-million pound companies in existence today started as a single thought in the mind of an individual; a thought that the owner had the choice to act on and allow to germinate, or to disregard. It's the thoughts we allow to germinate that are what determine the future harvests and destinations of our life. Again, this can be positive or negative because thoughts have the potential to contain or carry both. Today our church is experiencing incredible growth and success and we have planted out other churches and ministries, and in some ways it is like an oak tree sustaining the life of many others. I look around and am amazed at what God has done and is doing but I am also reminded where it all started: a thought came into my mind just over thirteen years ago as I was driving home from a meeting, a simple thought that could have been easily ignored – "start a church in Portsmouth". I allowed that thought to stay in the ground of my mind and germinate in my heart, believing it to be a God thought. That thought was the acorn of the tree which now is called Family Church – that was a positive thought!
Thoughts are so powerful, they can take you where you have never been before or destroy you! Think of King David and the whole mess he got himself into with Bathsheba. He ended up committing adultery, had an innocent man killed, and produced a child in sin that would sadly die. Where did that journey of pain for him and others start? With a single thought on a roof top (2 Samuel 11). Whilst he should have been at war with the men, he was at home, and looked over the balcony to see something he shouldn't have: a UFO (undressed feminine object). There, in that moment, a thought came – he had a choice with what to do with that thought. Sadly he chose to let it germinate and a pathway of pain was created. God's grace was greater than his sin but still, it never needed to happen. Our text today gives us some good advice concerning the seeds of thought – bring every one of them under what God says is true and right, then we can be certain of great things that bless others being the produced from our thought life.
Think about what you're thinking about!
Andy
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