November 10, 2025

Minding Your Thoughts

A Biblical Overview of Obtaining and Maintaining a Biblical Thought Life

I Chronicles 19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

The princes of the Ammonites were asking their king a question. Paraphrased it could read, “King, do you think that David sent his servants here to comfort you? They were not sent here to comfort you but to spy on us in order to destroy us.”  They couldn’t have been more wrong. But the thought they put in King Hanun’s mind brought forth the action of putting David’s servants under arrest, shaving them, cutting off half of their garments so that their rear ends showed and sending them away. Humiliating to say the least!

In verse 2 it is recorded that David did indeed desire to comfort Hanun, to show kindness to him because Hanun’s father, Nahash, had shown kindness to David once upon a time. The servants of David were carrying condolences of one king to another king. Yet, the newly appointed Hanun listened to his princes and made a bad decision.

This scenario is carried out each and every day in our world. The Almighty God, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, (as pictured by King David) sends ambassadors, or servants if you will, to the lost and dying unbelievers in this world. Unbelievers are pictured by King Hanun; these ambassadors of the Eternal King of the universe speak the comforting words of their Royal Leader (the Word of God) to the kings (people) of the world. However, there are princes, some in high places, who ask those who hear those kind words of the King of Kings:  Thinkest thou? “Really, you think that Book is relevant? Don’t you know there is no God? Come on now, you think that someone can rise from the dead? Jesus was a good man, a good teacher, even a prophet, but God in the flesh, come on man!”   There is no end to their derision. Jesus spoke about this in the parable of the sower and the seed; you can read about it in Luke 8.

The point! Be careful of those who try to sway your thinking by putting the seeds of doubt in your mind. Check it out, study it, ask questions and find out, this is what the Bereans did in Acts 17:11 and the Lord said they were noble. The more noble the person is the more they need to learn the truth. At all costs learn the truth, because eternity is too long to be wrong.

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

Dr. William Howe