Sweet Fragrance
by
Tibi Rosehill
What was your first thought when you opened your eyes
and looked into the sunshine filtered through the curtain on your
bedroom's window?
Was the dream you have been indulged subconsciously just a few minutes
ago and just kept flashing in your mind? Were the mountain of tasks
waiting for you to be fulfilled in daytime would come? Was a good
feeling or memory crossing your mind and making you smile or on the
contrary, a bad thing has happened recently causing you feel blue early
morning?
Do you know your first thought reflects the state of your spirit? It
reveals the current condition of it whether it is healthy or not?
Besides it foreshadows your spiritual state prevailing over you all the
day long if you let it loose. So do not begrudge from yourself a little
time to analyze your very first thought every morning laying quietly in
your bed for a while. And if you diagnose any kind of abnormality or bad
spirit you should take the necessary steps immediately.
How can we diagnose a bad spirit? Every negative thought, fear or simply
any thought which clutches your stomach or causes a kind of bad feeling
reflects spiritual malady. In that case you should be alert. Do not
sacrifice your whole day on a negative thought. Take an action. Pray.
Tell your God that you've got lost on the recent journey in the
dreamworld. You want Him back and you want to be free from evil. Praise
God from the bottom of your heart until the thankfulness makes you smile
or cry.
Anyway there is an ancient strategy to skip this process of the morning
analysis of your first thoughts: praying to God on an early morning
basis. As King David says: “My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O
LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look
up.”
Before you get out and lost in the world visit Heaven for a moment. Wake
up completely in there. Do not care about the good things and bad things
waiting out there for you behind the door. First of all surrender
yourself to God. Give Him praise and glory. After you get into the habit
of it you will open your eyes with joy in your heart and godly thoughts
in your mind every morning.
Do you know God's law on first fruits? “That thou shalt take of the
first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land
that the LORD thy God giveth thee.” The law relates not only the
material possessions you have acquired but the spiritual ones too. Your
mind daily first fruit is your first thought every morning when the
sunshine says hello to you. Do not let the devil snatch it. Give it to
the Lord. Actually it is His property according to the Word like every
other first fruit of yours. So do not rob the Lord.
It will be your first sacrifice to God you present every day. Besides
the sweet fragrance of such an act will wrap you up and God's glory
shine from your face making you a blessing to others. Should I keep
counting the benefits? I think I should not. Test them and you will see
the glory of God.
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