Sometimes I just can’t shake horrible thoughts from my head. I feel on the evil manifesting itself in what I think and it affects everybody around me.
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil in your hearts? (Matthew 9:4 ESV)
In situation where we almost instantaneously think the worst is exactly when Jesus tells us to think better. In this passage, Jesus encounters a paralyzed individual to whom he says, “your sins are forgiven.” He says this because he genuinely felt bad about the man’s predicament. Jesus knew that the paralysis this man was suffering was caused by the fallenness of humanity. Immediately the Pharisees have these evil thoughts in their heads. They had no sympathy for the paralyzed person, no, they started asking, “who does this guy Jesus think he is?” Don’t we get like that when we feel like people are not behaving according to our wishes? Moreover, don’t we think this way when we don’t understand the fullness of what is going on in a situation? We second guess and we point fingers, and of course we think ill of other people’s intentions. We need to think better. We are not slaves to fear and to prejudice. We are saved and born of the Holy Spirit, we need to think like the manifestation of God dwelling in us. We need to think in God’s love, it’s just better.
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