“Are Your Thoughts Quietly Running Your Life?” October 22
What do you think about when no one else is listening?
Those quiet conversations you have with yourself.
The old hurt you replay.
The argument you keep rehearsing.
What your spouse should have said.
What your mother-in-law should not have said.
What someone else has that you wish you had.
The fearful possibility you keep turning over in your mind.
We may tell ourselves, “I can’t help what I think.”
But is that true?
And could those private thoughts be affecting far more than we realize?
Our moods.
Our marriages.
Our relationships.
Our anger.
Our anxiety.
Our ability to forgive.
Even our walk with God.
Proverbs says that what is going on in our hearts eventually works its way into our lives.
And Scripture does not treat our thought lives as harmless or uncontrollable.
God tells us to guard our hearts.
To take thoughts captive.
To put off old patterns of thinking.
And to deliberately put something else in their place.
So maybe the question isn’t simply:
“What am I thinking?”
But:
“What are those thoughts producing in me?”
Are they feeding fear?
Bitterness?
Discontent?
Self-pity?
Anger?
Or are we learning to think in ways that produce prayer, gratitude, forgiveness, kindness, and greater Christlikeness?
Today we’ll look at how habitual thoughts can begin running our lives, whether we really can change the way we think, and what Scripture says about replacing wrong thoughts with godly ones.
