So perhaps you find yourself wondering why such emphasis on this blog about thought and worldviews? The purpose for this emphasis is because many have forgotten, or worse, many deny, that ones thinking directly impacts ones life. Accept it or deny it, but nevertheless there is no such thing as neutral thinking. Men and women, sons or daughters, are always aiming at something. As Goetzmann says, "A man’s thinking and striving cannot be seen in isolation from the overall direction of his life; the latter will be reflected in the aims which he sets for himself (NIDNTT, Goetzmann, vol.2, 617).”

The implications of this simple truth are profound and far reaching. Consider what Paul the Apostle says regarding ones mind and its object of thought in his epistle to the church of Romans - For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace (Romans 8:5, 6). One cannot miss the clear explicit teaching of the Apostle Paul! Set your mind on the flesh (earthly things, transitory) and the outcome of your life is death! Set your mind on the Spirit (heavenly things, permanent) and the outcome of your life is life and peace! Stop and think now. What do you think about? What do you "set your mind upon?" Remember, whatever it is that you set your mind upon, that is the engine that is driving your life either to life or death!