BBD 04.08.21 What Were They Thinking? (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

08 April 2021

What Were They
Thinking?

The
thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are
deceitful. - Proverbs 12:5.

The
thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. - Proverbs 15:26.

We have
to wonder sometimes what people are thinking like Bob Bowling, who while
practicing his quick draw on a snowman shot himself in the thigh. Then there is
Paul Dimoff, who rigged a booby-trapped shotgun to fire at any burglars
entering his home. But somehow it was Dimoff, who was accidentally shot in the
chest on New Year’s morning at 2:00 A.M. Juan Manuel Lopez also shot himself.
Juan was trying to impress and demonstrate his manliness in front of a girl by
firing his gun toward the floor of her apartment. Juan shot himself in the
foot!

Involvement
in evil and wickedness to any degree warps our minds and even our thoughts.
In Titus 1:15 we
are told, “To the pure all things are pure, but to those
who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and
conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him,
being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.” When our thoughts are wrong our actions reveal the true nature of
our character. We may say we know God but when every action we take continually
reeks of evil the truth of the matter is revealed.

Contrast
the thoughts of the evil person with the thoughts of the righteous. As the
writer of Proverbs says, “The thoughts of
the righteous are right.” With
right thinking comes right actions and words. Jesus says, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and
an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of
the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks (Luke 6:45).” Our thoughts often result in actions, which are sometimes good and
sometimes bad. However, if our conscience has been corrupted our actions will
always be influenced by evil.

To
change our pattern of thinking we must begin with the basics. The very most
important change that we can make is to receive Jesus as our Savior and be born
again because it will radically change everything in our lives (2 Corinthians 5:17). Then we must
take advantage of the resources of God found in Christ (Philippians 4:19). To think right we must
begin to think about good things and not bad things (Philippians 4:8). And there is nothing
more good and excellent than God’s Holy Word. Renew your mind through reading,
memorizing, and meditating upon God’s Word (Romans 12:2).

When
your thoughts are right you won’t be shooting yourself in the foot anymore.

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Pat S., Buck & Barbara
Wright, Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a
stroke; Scott J.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Shonda H. (fighting cancer); and please
pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a problem with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

08 April 2021

What Were They
Thinking?

The
thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are
deceitful. - Proverbs 12:5.

The
thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. - Proverbs 15:26.

We have
to wonder sometimes what people are thinking like Bob Bowling, who while
practicing his quick draw on a snowman shot himself in the thigh. Then there is
Paul Dimoff, who rigged a booby-trapped shotgun to fire at any burglars
entering his home. But somehow it was Dimoff, who was accidentally shot in the
chest on New Year’s morning at 2:00 A.M. Juan Manuel Lopez also shot himself.
Juan was trying to impress and demonstrate his manliness in front of a girl by
firing his gun toward the floor of her apartment. Juan shot himself in the
foot!

Involvement
in evil and wickedness to any degree warps our minds and even our thoughts.
In Titus 1:15 we
are told, “To the pure all things are pure, but to those
who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and
conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him,
being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.” When our thoughts are wrong our actions reveal the true nature of
our character. We may say we know God but when every action we take continually
reeks of evil the truth of the matter is revealed.

Contrast
the thoughts of the evil person with the thoughts of the righteous. As the
writer of Proverbs says, “The thoughts of
the righteous are right.” With
right thinking comes right actions and words. Jesus says, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and
an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of
the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks (Luke 6:45).” Our thoughts often result in actions, which are sometimes good and
sometimes bad. However, if our conscience has been corrupted our actions will
always be influenced by evil.

To
change our pattern of thinking we must begin with the basics. The very most
important change that we can make is to receive Jesus as our Savior and be born
again because it will radically change everything in our lives (2 Corinthians 5:17). Then we must
take advantage of the resources of God found in Christ (Philippians 4:19). To think right we must
begin to think about good things and not bad things (Philippians 4:8). And there is nothing
more good and excellent than God’s Holy Word. Renew your mind through reading,
memorizing, and meditating upon God’s Word (Romans 12:2).

When
your thoughts are right you won’t be shooting yourself in the foot anymore.

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Pat S., Buck & Barbara
Wright, Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a
stroke; Scott J.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Shonda H. (fighting cancer); and please
pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a problem with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by
sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org