Honorable and Right

Philippians 4:8 
Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 

Every once in a while I have a bad dream. Things in the dream are just not going correctly; not happening in a Godly fashion. The dream might even depict my life as it could be if everything was wrong. The dream is a distorted view of my life with relationships turned around. We used to call these "pizza dreams" because it seemed like every time we got stuffed on pizza, eating way more than we should have, our dreams would be weird.

If we are not thinking about things that are pure and lovely and admirable it probably has something to do with who we are hanging around with, the television shows and movies we are subjecting ourselves to, and the books and websites we are reading. It is pretty simple when you think about it in these terms: Hang around with a thief and you will soon be thinking it is fine to be one.

Think about it. If you worked with someone that was taking cash out of the register all day long and getting away with it, you might think about doing the same thing.

As we spend our time with those that are honorable and right, those that are doing things excellent and worthy of praise, then we will be also.