Sweet Fragrance

Do you know your first thought in the morning reflects the state of your spirit? It reveals the current condition of it whether it is healthy or not?

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.

April, 2007 Tibor Rozsahegyi