Commit to Memory: “Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.” (Proverbs 4:23 GNT)
We become overtime what we conceive consistently and by default we react and behave the way we have allowed our subconscious minds to process what we constantly feed our minds with. That is why we must watch our thoughts for they can make us or mar us. See what the Bible says of the thoughts of God concerning you- the very reason why you must think big, high, right and great of yourself. Jeremiah 29:11 says:
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
Friends, like God think right about yourself and don’t let the thoughts of others about you condemn and define you. Why? There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Be careful of the mental pictures and things you expose your eyes and heart to. This is because if you think negative and evil, evil will befall you. If you think good and great, goodness and greatness shall come upon you. Why? Everyone of us is confronted by our thought lines. That’s why it’s very important we control and guard our thoughts. The Contemporary English Version of Proverbs 4:23 puts it this way:
“Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.”
In your quest to become all God designed you to be, you must think straight, think right, think well and think like God always. Why? You and I are created after God’s likeness, what this means is that we must function like God in all circumstances and in this wise- in your thought pattern. What you hear has a way of moulding your thoughts and life, like raw materials they form your thought life overtime. If you feed your mind with things that will corrupt it like pornography, malice, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness etc; your mind will program every other members to begin to produce a terrible life in you. That is why the Bible says in Philippians 2:5 that we should have the mind of Christ.
Reflection: Your thought life is the engine room that produces in you a good or bad life. Guard your thoughts.
Prayer Lines: Father, give me the mind of Christ that I may think and act like You always and in any circumstances.