Think deeply upon these things. Through the week, let us all think a great deal as we have opportunity. Think of the Lord and what he has done for you and his amazing love that he saw you in eternity past, and set his love upon you, and sent his Spirit into your heart to awaken you and regenerate you, or else you would never have turned. Think of the love of Christ which suffered and died for you. Think of where you have gone wrong: the word that was wrong, the angry response, the peevish answer. Think of the things that you haven't done which you could have done, and kindnesses you didn't show. Pledge yourself afresh to God. Think of what you might be doing or could be doing. Be thinking Christians. Use the mind, then the heart will work full time and you will feel, and then you will find that your will determines, ‘I will do this, I will do that; I will avoid this, I will avoid that.’ What a promise! It'll make such a difference to our lives that everyone will know we're the Lord's, almost without a word.
We are to be the kind of people who, by the grace and the help of God, plan our lives with spiritual objectives in view. We do not set out on the week and drift along. We think about what we are doing and the significance of it, and what we may do for the Lord, and we have aims and objectives. If we receive an invitation, we weigh it. Is this going to conflict with what we have set ourselves to do, with the undertakings that we have for the Lord? Is it going to overload us, carry us away? Is it going to put too great a pleasure or leisure ingredient in our week? There is room for leisure and pleasure for Christian people, of course, but we weigh things. Is this too much? Is this going out of balance? We think over everything and we review what we have done. What did I do last week? Did I get swept away? Did I waste my time? Did I do unprofitable things? Did I give too little time to my lesson preparation in the Sunday school? Did I give too little prayer to my visitation? Did I think nothing of other people and other believers? Did I not express things I ought to have expressed to people? That is what is said here: meditate upon these things, and review and have objectives, and certainly learn when to say no to certain things which will get you carried away. Learn to say no to yourself, and actually it's not always to yourself, it's to the devil who whispers in your ear, ‘Wouldn't it be nice to rush off and do this?’ Sometimes we have got to say, ‘Yes, but it's not appropriate. It's not a right priority.’