So, what do you think?

A Mini-Sermon by Bro. C. Emerson Strain

A perfectly good question to ask you. Can you also answer truthfully? What do you think?

It doesn't matter what people think about you, but it does matter what you think about people.

The Bible says, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Prov 23:7

So what do you think? Do you think bad about people? If you do, then you think bad.

Job cried out from the belly of the great fish. He saw the bitterness of his own heart. It made him to become rebellious to the direct call of God in his life.

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job 7:11

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. Job 1:10

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Job 23:2

So, let me ask you. Do you have bitter complaints in your soul? "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Prov 23:7

Do you always speak bad about people? Do you know it is as bad as cursing? Watch how Paul describes someone who is always talking bad about others.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Rom 3:13
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Rom 3:14
Their feet are swift to shed blood: Rom 3:15
Destruction and misery are in their ways: Rom 3:16
And the way of peace have they not known: Rom 3:17
There is no fear of God before their eyes. Rom 3:18

So if you constantly think bad about people, you are thinking bad. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Prov 23:7

But watch the difference in good thinking.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Eph 4:31-32

Even Paul, as he was kept in prison, he could have become bitter, but he did not. How did he do it? When he stood before Agrippa, this is what he said.

I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: Rom 26:2

He thought himself happy so therefore he was happy!

If someone around you is always bitter and finding fault with others, get away from them. It will effect you. You will think bad about others as they do.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. Prov 22:24-25

Here is what you are to think on.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Eph 4:8

It does matter what you think.

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