As Man Thinks

Almost every motivational speaker and author – from Norman Vincent Peale to Anthony Robbins – has tackled the issue of your thought life. Their approach tends to fall along the lines of “if you can think it, you can achieve it.” While there is a certain measure of truth to that, I believe it falls short of accurately describing the perspective we should have as believers.
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For as long as I can remember, one of my favorite verses in the Bible has been this one, from Proverbs 23:7: “As (a man) thinks in his heart, so is he.” You see, you can’t separate the internal thoughts in your heart – those that define you to yourself – from your external reality. Or to say it another way, if you internalize a view of yourself as a victim of life’s circumstances, or a failure who will never amount to anything, or a person who never gets what they really want out of life (the relationship of your dreams, a job you actually enjoy, the friends you long for, whatever is most important to you) then any amount of thinking about something “different and better” is dead on arrival, killed off before it can even take root by the negativity within.

It’s not the externally focused thoughts – things we want or need – that we should concern ourselves with. It’s our hearts and the thoughts that live there – those core beliefs about ourselves that always, 100% of the time, lay the foundation for what our external circumstances will be like.

Think you’re not worthy? That you don’t deserve the solid friendships and loving relationships you see others enjoying? Then it should come as no surprise, really, when you find your life devoid of them.
Think you’re just unlucky, that you’re a living example of Murphy’s Law – if it can go wrong it will? Then don’t be shocked if that’s exactly what happens.

But the opposite is just as true. Think you’re someone deserving of respect and kind treatment by others, even perfect strangers? Then you’re likely to find that to be your external “circumstantial” reality.

I have a good friend whose life perfectly illustrates that. Whenever we’re together in a public place, it absolutely amazes me how people treat him. He has a gentle spirit, a calm assurance that whatever he needs to have happen will somehow make itself manifest. Time and again I’ve watched others pick up on that “heart thinking” of his and more often than not, he is provided with exactly what he needs in the moment.

There’s nothing secret or magical about it. It simply involves an honest examination of what’s going on in your heart. What’s the tape that’s playing in your head? Does it tell you that you’re a person of value, deserving of all the great things God wants to bring into your life? Or does it play a message – perhaps one left over from childhood – that says you’re not worthy of a good life, that you’re guilty and
condemned to live out an unhappy existence?

I don’t think I need to belabor the point that God’s view of you is one of total acceptance and unconditional love. The Apostle Paul said it best when he reminds us “there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1) I think it would be safe to say (and also quite Biblical) that God views believers through the same lens with which He viewed Jesus: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Thinking about things you want to achieve in life – the externals – won’t do a bit of good until you learn to think correctly – and Biblically – about yourself. Perhaps it’s time to change out the tapes in your heart. Begin to see yourself as God sees you – His beloved child, worthy of all the good things He wants to bring into your life.

As I see it, it’s not just “thinking” you need, it’s “correct thinking” – at the heart level.
Change that, and you begin the process of changing everything.