The idea is to start with the understanding that you have immense ability.
For that understanding to be embedded you have to appreciate the power of your thoughts. If you concentrate enough on a thought, what you can do with it can be instructive.
It’s not to say that the power of thought achieves anything and everything. It is to acknowledge that your thought – focused and dedicated – can produce remarkable effects.
Consider the sphere of education. An individual recognises their interest in a given subject, for example history. That interest, as focused, leads the individual to become a student. Their approach to the study leads them to dedicate time on a regular basis to submitting to a teaching on the topic of history. That dedication of time and thought subsequently leads them to not just being a student of history, but capable of conveying what you have learnt to others and even apply your learning to certain situations even in your life beyond your study.
All by the power of your thought.
The idea continues that it is the missed opportunity of many to truly harness the power of their thought. It is so easily diverted and attention is difficult to maintain on a single topic. The tugs and pulls of life mean that at any given time your thoughts have to attend to work activities, relationships issues, financial matters, recreational matters, etc. Though the culture you’re in determines how you approach these issues, often little to no thought is given to how to harness your thought to truly make the most of your life.
That chasm is filled with a plethora of issues which people invest significant thought, effort and energy for what turns out to be something of no lasting value.
Yet consider the nature of the idea. Is it real? Does your thought have that much ability in it? Ability to motivate action? Ability to influence change? Ability to set an agenda for others to follow?
Is that how marketing campaigns are designed? Is that how educational curricula are developed? Is that how patterns, schemes and organisations are developed? All by the power of thought?
Is that power really best placed in us for us? Is that power producing outcomes of peace and prosperity? Is that power producing outcomes of justice and righteousness?
There is an idea that if we understand the source of this amazing ability of thought, that in itself can be a great guide as to the best use of that amazing ability. It is clear that if we delude ourselves in thinking that we are the best sources to guide this ability, then with the best intentions, we will only pave the way to outcomes that do no produce true justice, peace, prosperity and righteousness.
Consider the idea of giving this amazing ability over to the Architect of thought to channel this to deliver delightful outcomes.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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