Paul’s letter to the Philippians describes how we need to work with our turbulent, resentful, and judgmental mind. Although he wrote the letter when he was in prison and in chains, it was remarkably the most positive and joy-filled of all of his letters.
In summary, Paul said that we should pray with peace and gratitude, consciously letting go of our egoic thoughts.
We are not free until we are free from our own compulsiveness, resentments, complaints, and our own obsessive patterns of thinking. We have to catch these patterns early in our mind, the primary place where we sin.
If we do not choose love and compassion, our minds would naturally go in the other direction, and we risk joining the majority of people who live their later years trapped in a sense of victimhood, entitlement, and bitterness.
Philippians 4:8 “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.”
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