Dwell Means "Build Your Reality On"

The word "dwell" in Philippians 4:8 is "logisome". This is an accounting term; the term deals with money and accounts, with what is really there in your bank account.

If I "logisome" that I have $100 in my bank account, I have $100 in my bank account. Otherwise I am deceiving myself. This word deals with reality.

It seems that, to a certain extent, we control our own reality, and God wants us to use these things (in Philippians 4:8) as the building blocks of our reality. He wants us to build our life on these things.

"Logisome" is where we get "logistics", the handling of an operation and its personel. When it comes to our relationships with others, it would really help if we reckoned as true only those things which are good about them!

Another way to explain "logisome" is: count on, bank on, reckon as true, make your world out of these things: whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, excellent, worthy of praise, and of a good report. Here is the verse from the Bible:

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, "logisome" on these things.