What a rotten tomato and a bad thought have in common …

“What is that smell?!” you ask, then almost get knocked over from the odor as you pull open the refrigerator door.

The tomatoes are fuzzy, the meat is brown, the lettuce has become an incubator for some unknown growth, and the leftovers have changed color.

It’s time to clean out your refrigerator!

That scene has happened to many of us. We pick up food items we intend to eat, then stuff them in the fridge and either forget about them, or take too long getting to them. Their freshness fades and they ruin. We need to get rid of them or we’ll make ourselves sick eating them.

The same goes for some of our thoughts. Sometimes we find ourselves as adults with a lot of immature thoughts and thought patterns still stuffed in our brains. As Christians, we need to change the way we think! We need to clean the clutter from our minds and replace it with fresh, healthy thoughts and attitudes. The Apostle Paul commented about this need:

“Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes,” Ephesians 4:23.

“Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God,” Colossians 3:1-3.

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise,” Philippians 4:8.

Have you yielded to the Spirit and allowed Him to renew your thoughts and attitudes? Or is there still some stinkin’ thinkin’ that needs to be cleaned out of your life?

Scotty