Benefits of changing Stinkin' Thinkin'

Murphy’s Law consists of a comment made by Edward Murphy, who was born in 1917. He said that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. In other words, in his opinion, always expect a negative result in whatever you do in life.  

On the other hand, Christians have something that is a thousand percent better than Murphy’s Law. It is called the Word of God. 

In the Bible, Christians are made aware of the Gospel, the Good News, which is inclusive of calling sinners to repentance. Repentance means to feel remorse and regret the life choices that were contrary to God principles. In a nutshell, true repentance means both to change how one thinks and to turn around and walk in a different direction from the past. This happens because a person has changed their focus from the world to Jesus.

God knew His creation was lost. Thus, because of His Love for the world, He gave His only begotten Son... [John 3: 16]. Love kept Jesus on the path that was set for Him — to give His life for the lost. Heartfelt [inward/spiritual] awareness of this extra-ordinary love causes the offender against God, i.e. sinner, to think different, thus act different, and sin no more.  

More so, repentance means a person comes to a new understanding of God’s truth. This new but old wisdom changes not only how a person sees God, but how they see themselves through God’s eyes—fearfully and wonderfully made — as David states in Psalms 139. In Genesis 1:31, God said He saw everything that He had made — including mankind — as very good.  

Mankind is uniquely created by the Heavenly Father. However, Satan, through trickery, became mankind’s teacher, which in turn led to perverted, ungodly, mindsets in God’s people.  Reconnection with God allows a person to know the difference and enables a person to stand up on the solid foundation of what God said.  

Best of all, there is an astonishing side benefit to the changing of a mindset, or way of thinking.  

In Psalms 23, David states that “surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me.... However, before David makes this claim, he “first” acknowledges that God is his shepherd. In other words, David states that in following God, the shepherd of his soul, he is confident that surely goodness and mercy shall follow him all the days of his life.  

As Christ-followers, can Christians expect any less? God supplied [and continues to supply] all of our needs through Jesus, Php 4:19. Jesus is the good shepherd, John 10:11. He alone paid the price. When the Christian follows Jesus, there is no need to keep looking back to see if the wrong’s from Murphy’s Law are sneaking up from behind.   

Change who you follow and what follows you will also change!