I spend a great deal of time thinking. I am quiet by nature, and only talk a lot when I am in my comfort zone. I am not always able to get engrossed in reading, and I can only twiddle my thumbs for a fixed amount of time, so I think. This isn’t unique to me, but it is what is on my mind.

Even with all the time I spend in thought, there are occasions that I am dumbfounded. I was once fussed at by someone for trying to make them better than I am. How do you respond to something like that? When did trying to help them get better become a bad thing? In reality, there was a deeper issue to that comment, but I still find it amusing.

I’m sure nearly everybody has drawn the proverbial blank at some point. This post is coming close to causing that. What do you do when you have nothing else to do? Thinking is not wrong in and of itself, but the subject matter can be wrong. If I am thinking about committing a sin, I have just wasted my time, in addition to sinning. I am not being a good steward of the time, or abilities, God has given me. So, in effect, I have sinned multiple times in that one act.

Thinking on God and what He has done would be a much better use of that time and energy. I, like Paul, am left to wonder why I do the things I know are wrong instead of the things I know are right.