You Are What You Think...

Many years ago, a mentor introduced me to a book called "Think and Grow Rich", written in the early 1900s by Napoleon Hill. He was a young man who studied some of the most wealthy people in the nation over the course of about 20 years to write this book. In it, my mentor pointed out, was the difference between the J. Paul Getty/Nelson Rockafellers of the world and the average week to week, paycheck to paycheck folks. He discovered that the key difference between those who were successful financially and those who weren't was their belief system.

20 years, hundreds of people, multiple millionaires and he comes up with "Rich people just plain think differently.

A decade later, I look at the wealth I would like in my life and I discover that it's not all measurable by dead presidents. Where do you want to earn your millions? In relationships? In wisdom? In emotional stability? In fitness? Paul teases out one of the same principles Hill discovered in the 1900s, only Paul got it from God and wrote it down 1800 years before.

"...whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." Phil. 4.9

Hill was right - thoughts are things. What you think is what you become. We are what we know, we become what we learn. So, do you take this verse like I did, like God was just trying to snuff out "fun", or is it possible that the Great Designer has better plans for us than we have ever imagined and is just waiting for us to get our act together before He unleashes a tsunami of blessings on our lives?