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YOUR CHOICES AND DECISIONS
Submitting Your Choices And Decisions To The Right Things
Phil 4:8 (NIV) 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. Your choices and decisions are based on the goals you have set, the plans you have made, and the things you concentrate on. If you are spending your time dreaming, planning, and concentrating on things that don’t qualify for this list, your choices and decisions will turn out bad.
A Choice And Decision That Is TRUE
You may not know whether something you are thinking is TRUE. If that is the case, then you must treat it as an unproven thought. If you “guess” it is TRUE, then you will base your decision on guess work. If someone “told” you it was true but you don’t know it for a fact, then you are about to make a decision that fails the list. If you find yourself trying to convince yourself and others that it is TRUE, then you are about to make a decision that fails the list. You must know for a fact that what you believe to be true is TRUE, BEFORE you choose and make your final decision on the matter.
A Choice And Decision That Is NOBLE
A NOBLE thought is a thought that represents or demonstrates fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals. If your thoughts are locked into that which is right, good, and righteous, then your choices and decisions will be beneficial, win/win, and helpful. You will be thinking thoughts that plan ways of being honest, filled with integrity, and moral. But, you won’t be able to automatically make decisions that are righteous and noble. You will face situations that will challenge you making honest, moral, and righteous decisions. If you don’t allow Jesus to help you think about ways to avoid wrong, bad, and evil decisions, as you go about your day, you will mess up.
A Choice And Decision That Is RIGHT
Right as opposed to wrong can often be a wrong decision you made accidentally. However, good decisions as opposed to bad ones or righteous decisions as opposed to evil ones are decisions made on purpose. Not every decision you make has to do with righteousness or sin; it will be a wrong choice; but, it won’t be a bad or evil one. God doesn’t just deal with sin and righteousness, He also deals with what is best for you and those around you. He wants you and others to experience His very best. If you yield your thoughts to God’s best, you won’t settle for choices, decisions, plans, goals, or strategies that are mediocre.
A Choice And Decision That Is PURE
When something is PURE, it isn’t mixed with anything else. In that case, your decision doesn’t have some parts of it that are honest, loving, moral, and righteous and also have parts that are dishonest, unloving, immoral, and unrighteous. A choice or plan can be mostly right, good, and righteous; it can be almost pure; but, it can have a little bit of something that keeps it from being the very best for you and those around you. Jesus wants you to let Him help you purify your choices and decisions so that every aspect of them are right, good, and righteous.
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A Choice And Decision That Is LOVELY
A plan that inspires love is LOVELY; it is a yielding to choices and decisions that help and assist you in loving yourself, others, and God. There are also choices and decisions that are based on hate, disrespect, revenge, and all kinds of wrong, bad, and evil. A lovely decision is one that helps you plan, come up with feelings, and consider ways for demonstrating love for someone. It is a decision that sets you on a path that is based on you wanting to love a person; it gives you a plan that demonstrates that you love them; and it is based on the fact that you have started to feel love for them.
A Choice And Decision That Is ADMIRABLE
A thought that is worthy of ADMIRATION is a thought that you can honor, be pleased with, and can consider worthy of investing your choices and decisions in. It is a form of thinking that has high qualities, good attitudes and character, and is a valuable way of producing quality decisions. If it is ADMIRABLE, it is worth concentrating on, pondering, meditating on, and developing into a goal, a plan, a decision, and then actions.
A Choice And Decision That Is EXCELLENT
A thought that is EXCELLENT, is a thought that excels to the highest levels of quality. If your choices and decisions are EXCELLENT, then you are devoting them to the very best types of accomplishments. You are allowing Jesus to give you plans that are God-sized, supernatural, and holy. They are decisions that are bigger, better, and superior to any kind of decision you, as a human, could make. This requires you to use your mind of Christ to start making spiritual decisions.
A Choice And Decision That Is PRAISEWORTHY
You can think about mundane, boring, common, and uneventful things. Or, you can allow Jesus to help you think of things that really motivate you to set goals, make plans, and choose decisions that are PRAISEWORTHY. Since God, the Holy Spirit is inside you, He can guide you into choices and decisions that produce incredibly wonderful, helpful, considerate, and loving plans and accomplishments. Jesus can help you decide to do benevolent things that are quite amazing. They will be decisions that help you reach you highest potential in righteousness.
Philippians 4:8 Choices And Decisions
It is impossible to think like this and make decisions like this on your own. It is easy to see that this takes you submitting your thoughts, choices, and decisions to Jesus. 1 Cor 2:16 (NIV) “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. You have Jesus mind installed in your mind; that means you can think Jesus-thoughts, devise Jesus-plans, and make Jesus-decisions. If you apply The Six Biblical Principles and start DESIRING to think Philippians 4:8 thoughts, Jesus’ power-thoughts will start popping up in your mind. This will empower your choices and decisions to start representing God’s will for your life. |
