Kings Inspiration: ARE YOU GUARDING YOUR THOUGHTS?

ARE YOU GUARDING YOUR THOUGHTS?

By william King | Email: kingwilliam189@gmail.com | image courtesy : Ludovic

Have you ever notice how subtly a wrong thought can develop into a bad attitude if you are not guarding your mind? For instance, let’s say your friend has a habit of doing something you do not like. At first it is no big deal but the more you think about it, the more it irritates you.

You are getting dressed and thinking, “She knows it frustrates me.” You are eating lunch and thinking, “She does not care that it bugs me.” Then she does it again. This time you are upset and start to build a critical attitude toward her. It’s not just that thing she does.

That initial irritating thought has sunk into your heart and become a critical attitude that can grow and harden. You’ll start to measure everything she does through this critical filter and it will damage your relationship. The writer of Proverbs says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”

That tells us that our life is going to go in the direction of our most dominant thoughts. Proverbs 4:23 does not say that “some” things flow from your heart, no. It says, “everything.” If you allow the wrong thoughts to linger in your mind, such as an offense, or a fear they will drop down into your heart.

Life is hard enough without being handicapped by your negative thoughts and attitudes. Many of the difficulties that come against you will overwhelm you if you have negative attitudes and the wrong perspective. If you are going to become everything God wants you to be, you have to take captive the thoughts that are playing in your mind.

That is the key. You cannot control what anyone else does, says, or thinks and you cannot control everything that happens to you, but you can control what you think, attitude. Let me encourage you today. If your life is not going in the direction you want, push your thoughts in the direction you want.