It's an amazing thing when you look at the world through new eyes. Something that you've looked at so many times before all of a sudden becomes different. Today I am extremely grateful for all that God has done in my husband and myself. Before to look at us you never would have known that we were serving God. Our actions did not speak Christ. It was more of the world in us than anything. We had gotten away from Jesus and all He had done for us. We started paying way too much attention to the things in the world than to what God was saying. I myself knew what was right to do but I used my husband as a crutch. Since he wasn't going to church, I couldn't possibly go by myself. All those unfamiliar people. Someone might look at me wrong.
It's funny now to think of how crazy my thought patterns were. But it wasn't funny at all at the time. I really thought I was right in my thinking. But how many of us know that our thinking can be wrong more times than not. In Isaiah 55:8 it says, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," declares the Lord (NASB). The way we think is in no way how God thinks about us and for that matter how other people think about us as well. I remember when I thought God could not possibly want to have anything to do with me because I wasn't doing all I needed to do for Him. But then I had to remember His word Deut.31:6, "for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you".(NIV) It's comforting to know that no matter how far off track I've gotten, He is still there. Renewing your thought patterns with daily bible reading helps to transform your mind. It helps you to see things that were right there all along. It helps you see things you've seen before in a new light.
