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Capturing Your Fugitive Thoughts
These have become springboards for articles, are included in blogs I write, talks I give, and even in my teaching and preaching, whenever appropriate. Had I failed to capture those ideas and thoughts as quickly as they enter my mind, I would never find them again, nor be able to utilize them for a wider, beneficial aim.
Anyone can (and should) develop the habit of thinking. Whenever that happens, at any time of day or night, regardless of where one may be, and no matter what one may otherwise be doing, the mind will overflow with an abundance of good material worthy of further exploration and development.
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The same also occurs while reading a book, an article, a piece of poetry, or even the daily newspaper. Whether in moments of leisure or agitation, in quietness or in noisy places, besides several other circumstances where we may be found, the mind will inevitably entertain new thoughts even if totally unrelated to what is specifically being read, heard, felt, or observed!
All these are to be recognized as seeds God is planting in your mind to see how your creativity will be manifested, how you will recognize how far a seminal idea may advance if you follow the directives already implied in the thought itself.
That’s why it is imperative for people to cultivate healthy mind habits from which useful ideas shall continually stem
Positive Living
By: Rick Boxx
and emerge. The Bible places a high premium on thinking right thoughts, setting one’s mental powers on what can lead to beneficial outcomes through inventions, writings, or any other creative endeavors.
Like everything a child of God does, this activity should aim at the edification of others, the advancement of God’s Kingdom, and the ultimate glory of the creator. St. Paul rightly proposed to Christ’s followers the practice of “bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (II Corinthians 10:5b). After all, as the same apostle affirmed, “we have the mind of Christ” (II Corinthians 2:16b). May all we verbalize and do truly validate the origin of our words and actions!
