Prison Ministries

Read 1 Corinthians 2, Psalm 19
What Were We Not Thinking?

“There is more hope for a fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.” Proverbs 29:20 NLT

Most of us often have cause to ponder mistakes. Hopefully we learn from and don’t repeat them. From the perfect 20/20 vision of hindsight, we often wonder what in the world we were thinking when the problem is that we were not thinking.

Flying off the handle without thinking about the consequences for ourselves or others often does a lot of damage and leads to a lifetime of regret.

Being overcome by lust can lead to sins of the flesh that can break up families and marriages and has consequences that would never have happened if we had been thinking.

Sometimes our problems stem from thinking too much with earthly wisdom instead of seeking wisdom and spiritual discernment from God, whose thoughts are different and so much higher than ours.

Sometimes we find ourselves over our heads trying to solve problems
beyond the scope of our experience or abilities and create more problems instead of solving anything. I have broken watches, computers, and other items sometimes beyond repair by not realizing that I didn’t know what I was doing. Unfortunately, I have the sadness of some broken relationships from the same problem.

When we think we are better than others, that we are invincible, that failure can never happen to us, that God does not take our sins seriously, we will sooner or later find out that we were not thinking rightly.

May God forbid that we ever take our self-centered thinking so seriously that we are blinded and never find the wisdom and spiritual discernment God wants to give all His children. In Jesus’ name, Amen