What Do You Think On?

What occupies your mind throughout the day?
Someone has said:  "A mind stayed on God produces a sound mind for daily living."

The epistle of Paul to the Philippians is a wonderful book!  I especially love verses 8 and 9 in chapter 4.  Paul has been talking about the peace of God and the God of peace.  He ends with these words:
     "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you."
How wonderful it would be if we would build a habit of thinking on things that are true, honest, just, pure, lowly and of good report!  Perhaps it was these verses that inspired Henry Van Dyke to write:

     "It is only by thinking about great and good things that we come to love them, and it is only by loving them that we come to long for them, and it is only by longing for them that we are impelled to seek after them; and it is only by seeking after them that they become ours."