[8] Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
(Philippians 4:8 ESV)
What do you think about? Do you think about the troubles in life, the problems you are facing, or other things that bring you down? What Paul is telling us here is to think about things that will inspire worship of God. Because when you think about what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, or worthy of praise you should not be able to keep yourself from praising God. You will praise and worship something; you can’t help it, that’s the way you were made. It’s just a matter of what you worship. All of the things mentioned in the list that we are to think about were all created by God, he was the author of all of these things so why not praise him for it and worship him for it. Think of a good worship song today, play it and sing along with it and just worship God. Granted worship is not just singing in fact it’s far from that. But sometimes for me anyway a good worship tune gets the ball rolling.
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