What Were You Thinking?
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” (Psalms 8:3-4)
Today’s Morsel: One of the things that we ought to consider is that we cannot teach others to think if we have not thought ourselves. A parent who yells and screams at their child in the store, saying “What were you thinking?”; has not thought themselves. Because if they had, they would not have created a scene by yelling. The sensible thing to have done would have been to consider what the child had done, then tell them that they will talk when they get home. That lets the child know that you are thinking, and they will start thinking as well. If it was something that they stole while in the store, and were caught, after a good lecture, take the child back to the store and make them apologize. Our good character and conduct before others and our children will cause them to think before they do things around us which are wrong. They may have a Freudian slip every now and then, but if you hold fast to your Christian character, soon they will start to think before they act, because you have already shown them that you think about your actions before others.
Sing: I’ve anchored in Jesus, the storm of life I’ll brave. I’ve anchored in Jesus; I fear no wind or wave. I’ve anchored in Jesus, for He hath power to save. I’ve anchored to the Rock of Ages.
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