April 22, 2025

Minding Your Thoughts

A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life

II Samuel 4:10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

I thought a thought

But the thought that I thought wasn’t the thought that I thought I thought

For if I thought the thought that I thought I thought

Then, I thought the thought that I thought

Which could only mean that I shouldn’t have thought so much.

Sometimes we think so much that we lose our head. That is what happened to the men in this verse. These brothers, Baanah and Rechab thought that if they killed Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, that David would give them a reward. One can only imagine how they felt as David told them what happened to another man that brought him tidings that Saul was dead expecting a reward. David had that man executed. These two that killed Ishbosheth must have been trembling when they heard this.

The lesson here in relation to one’s thought life is this: be careful of the actions that your thoughts incite. Your thoughts may be wrong. These brothers thought David would reward them, but they literally lost their hands, feet and probably their heads. It may just be that the thought you think is not the thought you should think.

Just think about it.

May the Lord bless and be pleased with your thought life today.

Dr. William T. Howe