Ponder

{Have you ever just stopped to think?  For a moment?  For a minute?  For an hour?  Not thinking while accomplishing tasks, but genuinely pondering.  It's a sensation that will leave you feeling raw and vulnerable and somewhat confused.  This generates creativity and a sense of closeness to God that only comes through reflective stillness.}

Thinking like this can lead to so many others pathways in the brain, they are too numerous to count.  The mind God created you with is amazingly complex and sometimes incomprehensible.  Every person's mind works differently, displaying God's idea of our uniqueness.

Just think...God has His own thoughts!  His thoughts about you outnumbered the grains of sand (Psalm 139).  How often do you think about your Creator?  The one who made your mind.... do you even give Him a second thought?  Do you think more about how you look or what's for dinner or your math homework?  Or is your mind consumed with thoughts of lust or hate or selfishness?

Of course, we can't control our minds on our own; that would be impossible!  However, everything is possible with God.

"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing.  Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable.  Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise."
Philippians 4:8, NLT

Through surrendering our thoughts to God, we will be free of the bondage sin has on our mind.  We will be free to ponder over beautiful things and stories and love and family and serving.  Then will we truly be able to wander a state of mind that is ours.  A state of mind that God had in mind from the beginning.