WWJT???

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Just recently an F35 military jet crashed… the pilot ejected, the plan flew another 60 miles without him in it and then crashed… it was a small 100 Million dollar whoops’y daisy… But would anyone on purpose just think… Im”a crash this plane… and if so, what were you thinking.

 

 

The book the divine conspiracy a pilot was practicing maneuvers and at one point pulled a hard ascent to shoot into the sky.. but instead crashed her plane straight into the earth… she was so busy maneuvering that she lost sense of direction and did not realize she was flying upside down.- how is this even possible…

Well you can get so disorientated at those speed and with the G Force building up you can end up going by feelings and not by your instrument panel… When you feel your way rather than think your way - you are in trouble especially at Mach 1.6… thats over 1200 MPH…

 

Unless you were locked in a box, on an island on Mars you know about the WWJD bracelet craze. Millions were sold…and I mean millions - I never bought one, I never wore one… my own personal reasons - basically would Jesus wear one? Im mean really what would jesus do? I don’t think he would wear one… so… anyways.

What would Jesus do…

Its quaint, a nice sentiment, but I feel lacking in really bringing about any conviction… here is what I would suggest… Rather than WWJD… how about

WWJT

What would Jesus think? I feel that this is a much more powerful act in which to practice. We can excuse what Jesus would do… because well…He is Jesus. 

But I don’t think asking myself what Jesus would do is going to make me do it… Look we all saw plenty of athletes wear those bracelets and yea… pretty poor witness in the mean time. But the point is, we are transformed by the renewing of our mind… not by the renewing my actions… now before you think I am being nit picky… 

stop to realize that we can in fact think what he thinks… in doing so it leans into our heart and mind that if we can think it, and digest it mentally, it can transform us and in fact we can start to do what he would do if we first think what he would think. 

Very little if anything is changed by merely doing… or at least it changes very little. We typically do for a while, and then stop… but when we think, when we stop to think what would Jesus think… well now I have to really wrap my head around the “why” and not just the do. 

I may have shared one of my favorite stories about a woman who was trying to lose weight… she tried everything, but just could not “DO” it. She went to a Doctor who explained to her that she will never DO it long enough to make it a habit, rather she had to think it first and get it so engrained that it became who she was… so he suggested that this woman carry a big purse with her and in the purse was a bathroom scale with a picture of a skinny woman… when ever she would get ready to eat something rather than trying to do the right thing, she simply would pull out the scale and the picture. She would weigh herself and think about that number on the scale and look at that picture and think about who she wanted to be. 

And by thinking first it engrained into her mind, soul, spirit who she really was… and she then acted accordingly. 

 

Why is it so important to read the word of God AKA the bible? Because you have to think about it… yes, we have all read a page or two and then thought… what did I just read… I zoned out. But still the greatest aspect of reading is that we have to think it, we have to put it in our brain and we are first to consume it mentally before we DO IT. The genesis again is that we are not trying to “what would Jesus do” but first and foremost must wrestle with what did Jesus think… and by thinking of what Jesus would think we are thinking what would jesus think.. confusing? Well not really, because thats the point.

So today, don’t worry about what Jesus would do, worry first about what he would think… The doing will come soon enough.