Thursday, February 14, 2013

Negative Thinking, Positvely

Today the Church is full of Positive thinking, all the way from christian TV to the little church down the street. The problem is that this is New Age teaching, positive and negative energy, sorry friends, there's nothing biblical to it. However there are verses that show us some positive results from thinking negatively about certain ways of doing things, hence the goofy post title. We find this very clearly in Psalm Chapter 1, Lets look at it. Psalm 1:1 "Blessed(835)is the man that walks (1980) not in the counsel (6098) of the ungodly (7563) nor stands (5975) in the way (1870) of sinners (2400) nor sits (3427) in the seat (4186) of the scornful. (3887): Now while the entire Psalm is great, I really just want to focus on the first verse today. What we see here in verse 1 is a positive blessing for thinking negatively about certain behavior, " negative thinking" so to speak. Some would tell you that thinking this way will send out "bad vibes" and that you should think good thoughts, and smile and you will draw positive energy from others. Now I'm all for smiling, don't get me wrong, it's just all this positive thinking stuff is new age, its not biblical, and its not amatter of " I'm ok you're ok."  God blesses because of the Blood of Christ, and from there because we do things His way.So with that lets look at the 10 words I gave the Strongs numbers for: Blessed (835), walks(1980), counsel (6098), ungodly (7563), stands (5975), way (1870), sinners (2400), sits (3427), seat (4186), scornful (3887). So here are the meanings of these words, Blessed ( blissfulness,a state of perfect happiness), walks (pathway, it refers to the path of life, like following in someones footsteps), counsel (advise), ungodly ( the word used here means, someone who is guilty, or in the wrong, not right with God), stands ( it is to stay, or even to serve, ( as Joseph stood before Pharoah), way ( lifestyle), sinners (those who choose sin over righteousness), sits (to sit to stay to inhabit), seat (a dwelling place  a judgement seat), scornful ( boaster,scorner, to express utter contempt, ( we all know somebody like this).  So with this information, lets look at Psalm 1 again, but with these meanings in mind. " Oh the God given bliss, the perfect happiness a person has when they do not live a life based on the advise of those who do not do things Gods way, or actively behave the same way that sinful people do, or the worst ,plop theirselves down and complain,and condemn others like the judgemental, envious people do!  Thse are some things to think negatively about , and to say "no" to, and if we will do this, God promises to fill us with a perfect happiness! Sounds like a good deal to me!

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