DON'T LET THOUGHTS CRACK

“I cannot paint!”  Was one of the quotes my friends said Saturday morning as they gathered to paint.  I explained that everyone could paint.  “What I see you may not see, what you see I may not see art is in the eye of the beholder,” was my response. 

  I love to paint.  Years ago it became my therapy.  I would paint and pray.  With every swipe of the brush I would say a short little prayer.  I wanted to share this with some of my friends. 

You may not like to paint or want to paint, but you need to find something to fill your idle time.  The worst enemy we have working against us isn’t the outside world.  The enemies are the thoughts that accumulate between our ears.  What painting and praying does for me is remove the thoughts that can send me down an unwanted road. 

The author of “The Spirit of Python” describes thoughts as this:

A thought is like an egg that Satan puts in your head.  I often call these snake eggs “thought bombs.”  The problem is, eggs hatch.

How many “thought bombs” are driving you away from the Lord?  How many of these eggs have hatched in your brain?  When we allow these thought bomb eggs to hatch you better watch out they are really smelly!

I’m not telling you to paint to get rid of thought bombs, but I am telling you that you must find something to divert your mind.  If you don’t have a hobby, make your new hobby prayer.  Pray every time the smelly rotten thought bomb goes off in your brain. 

What started at 7am that morning ended at 12:30 that afternoon.  Those that thought they couldn’t paint laughed and said, “I may quit my day job.”  We laughed, we prayed and we thought.  We thought about the Lord and what He was doing in our lives.  Our minds didn’t wander to the bad we had no stinky thought bombs. 

Find something today to take away the thoughts that are driven you away from the Lord.  Take control of your thoughts.   As Franklin quotes in his book,” Don’t let the snake make a nest and hatch his eggs in your mind!”

Colossians 3:2Amplified Bible (AMP)

2 Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value].

2 Corinthians 10:5Amplified Bible (AMP)

5 We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ,