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Introduction
So far in our series
mercia
We have looked out so that we do not loose the forest for the trees.
We have looked up and not down.
So that we do not get anxious as we remember God is caring for us.
This week we look in.
As we consider our own thoughts and we discern what is good to think about.
We could summerise this as look out, look up look in.
More and more people see that healthy thinking is very important .
Sometimes called Mindlfulness or meditation
Mindlfulness
What is it?
Some Christians are very sucipisious of meditation and mindfulness.
They see it as an eastern Religious practice.
Images come to mind of someone sitting cross legged on a matt with burning incense and a candel.
The eastern religions like budism and hinduism do have forms of meditation.
In these religions the purpose of meditation is to empty your mind and not think about anything at all.
This has been shown to reduce stress and so it has become popularised and there are lots of non religious secular meditation techniques that more or less follow this principal of not thinking about problems.
In more recent times the whole mindfulness movement has popped up.
This involves helping someone be present in the moment.
There are a whole lot of books written on the topic and loads of apps on the app store that help people slow their Breathing, be thankful and be generious.
Web Sites: Headspace, MindfulnessWorks Australia 114
Show a few Apps: http://www.psychologicalhealthcare.com.au/blog/5-top-mindfulness-apps-recommended-by-psychologists/
apple watch: http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/iphone/what-is-breathe-for-apple-watch-how-use-apple-breathe-app-in-watchos-3-3643692/
Cronulla Sharks: The sharks train their players in mindfulness.
Asked me to do a seminar on spirituality.
Again Christians are sometimes wary of this movement too.
But in the Bible there is both encouragement to meditate and to be pressent.
In a stressed out world Christians have often neglegted meditating and being mindful.
Rather we tend to want to know about God or experience him rather than meditate on him and let his precence help us to be mindful.
Here are some passages in the Bible that talk about meditation that show us the benefits of meditation:
You mind start to meditate and then after you have finished look up and see camels.
Haha.
Just joking.
What this passage shows us is that meditation can be a regular practice that is so beneficial that we might want to do it regularily.
Here Isaac goes out for his regular time of meditation and meets Rebecca his future wife.
Here Joshua tell the people of Israel that meditation is a good daily practice.
He also shows here the outcome of meditating is not just know the Bible but it will effect your actions.
You will know the word and do what it says.
This will lead to prosperity and success for the people who have measured the rythms of their life with the Rythms of God’s word.
This rythm of life can be delightful, not a chore but an important part of life that will help you to become closer with God your creator and your saviour and your sustainer.
This not only makes us happy but it also makes God happy too.
We remember his power to save and his promise to save us.
Ps 77
Ps 119
This
Very calming when you are facing conflict situations.
So we are actually encouraged to meditate.
But unlike Eastern Meditation, Christian meditation is about thinking about Good things about God and what he teaches us about ourselves.
Rather than meditating on nothing we are encouraged to meditate on God and his words to us.
So the Bible taught meditation and mindfulness long before the current mindfulness movement.
Our passage tonight deals with a form of positive thinking, you could call it a guide to Christian meditation, or Christian mindfulness.
relax in God
The Big Idea
Learn to Think Good Things
6 Good Things
Passage
Phil
True:
Noble:
Right:
Pure:
Lovely:
Explain
These are qualities which are good for us and good for others.
These qualities were popular in the moral philosophy at the time of Paul.
Paul lists 6 positive ethical qualities and then sumerises them describing them to show how they help shape your lifestyle.
Finally or in addition brothers and sisters:
Whatever is true
What ever is noble
Whatever is right
Whatever is pure
Whatever is lovely
Noble:
Admirable
Right:
If anything is excellent or praiseworthy
The catalog of virtues Paul sums up in two words: excellent and praiseworthy.
The first encompasses what is best in every area of life, the philosophical good for which every person should strive.
Here it is especially the ethical best a person can achieve.
The second term refers to that which deserves human praise.
The catalog of virtues thus reflects the best life a person can live and the best reputation a person can thereby achieve in the community.
Finally, in this verse, Paul gets to his point: think on these things.
That, joined with prayer will relieve all anxieties and lead one to praise God and live life the way he desires.
Pure:
destry arguments
2 cor 10:2-5
2 cor 10:2-5
take thoughts captive
Lovely:
I have wept over things I have submitting my world view
dismatle me if necessary
ask Holy spirit to work.
we don’t fight with flesh.
divine power
Raging lion defeated.
Rom 15:18
what is in us Holy spirit and
what is in us Holy spirit an
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