Our thought life pretty much determines the mood, the weather, and the climate of your heart.
If that's true, then do we need do a little cleaning up?
Can our thought life be controlled or managed? Yes I believe it can, but more importantly I know that controlling and taking captive our thought life to the obedience of Christ, changes our life giving us more of that abundant living we all desire.
It's all about what do you do with the initial thought that is crucial.
A thought comes into our head...random junk popping into our mind, horrifying us, or little things that are just plain stupid. You know the thoughts you have that are not from God. These thoughts tend to capture lots of time and attention and can really throw us off track, zapping us of much needed energy. So what do you do with them? This is important to remember, it's what you do with the initial thought, not the initial thought itself that is the problem. We have a choice...with each initial thought we have, we have the choice to either kill it, or fulfill it.
We can choose to take it captive(2 Cor.10:5) and refocus (Phil 4:8), or we can think on it further and let it become a part of us damaging and darkening our heart.
I love that God gives us choices....so much of life is about the choices we make.
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