The Golden Hour

It was interesting to read something from a management publication I receive from Brian Tracy:

You become what you think about most of the time. And the most important part of each day is what you think about at the beginning of that day.

It's actually a Scriptural principle, perhaps the most well-known passage being an old chorus from Psalm 5:3--

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

This article goes on to giving a secret away that Christians who practise morning devotional times alreay know. (Words in italics mine.)

Start Your Day Right

Take 30 minutes each morning to sit quietly and to reflect on your goals. You'll find when you read the biographies and autobiographies of successful business and missionary men and women that almost every one of them began their upward trajectory to success when they begin getting up early in the morning and spending time with God.

This is called the Golden Hour. The first hour sets the tone for the day. The things that you do in the first hour prepare your mind and set you up for the entire day. During the first thirty to sixty minutes, take time to think and read and pray.

Yesterday morning Ken's message was on being more like Christ. It was Part 2 of 3.

1. How to be like Christ - Body
2. How to be like Christ - Mind
3. How to be like Christ - Soul

Essentially, to have the same mind as Christ, we need to lend some focus onto what we think about. Matthew 12:34 says, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." What is in your heart and mind WILL come out in your actions and your words.

Will we allow ourselves to be double-minded hypocrites? Later on in the same chapter in Matthew, we're told we will give an account to God for every idle word we speak! Will we learn to control our thought life and think about what is true, honest, just pure,and lovely?