Blogtober Day 10…

 

 I have so many thoughts about what I’d like to share. I just can’t seem to lock into one and go with it. I have so much gratitude for my friends and family that support me and have my back. And to add to it all I am an over thinker. I will take a thought and dissect it to the nth degree. I will then take the pieces and over analyze them too. Are any of you over thinkers? If you are an over thinker, I know you completely understand, and I feel for you.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you. But his heart is not with you.” Proverbs 23:7. I have been thinking about this scripture and about what it means to me. I used to think the reason I have to capture my negative thoughts or the thoughts that weren’t like God was because I would become them. However, as I was typing the scripture, I noticed that it said thinks in his heart. There is a difference between thoughts that come into our mind and thoughts that take root in our hearts.

I am an over thinker. Am I the only one that will have a conversation about an issue, resolve the issue? Only to have over thought the whole conversation and be unclear all over again. Part of that comes from me not discussing my real issue which is the insecurities I have based on the familiarity of the issue. However, I am also learning that when I allow thoughts to overwhelm my mind they can and will take root in my heart like a seed. Once a thought has taken root in my heart and begins the process of growing it becomes much more difficult to handle. For one, casting that thought down becomes difficult because its grown from my mind to my heart. If that thought was a lie about myself now it’s planted itself in my heart and I begin to believe its true. When it’s a lie about someone who loves me, I began to see them differently.

 When thoughts enter our mind, we must weight them by the fruits of the spirit. Are there any components of the following: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-control? We might not get every thought, but we can begin to treat ourselves and our mind with the fruits of the spirit and watch the lies we’ve told ourselves change into the truth of who God created us to be. Negative thoughts will come. There is a battle that takes place in our minds because the thoughts that can find their way to our heart will at some point dictate who we become.

If you think you’ve done the worst thing possible and therefore not worthy of love or even kindness please STOP telling yourself that. There is nothing you can do that will keep God from loving you. If people have caused you to feel that way, please remind yourself right now that they weren’t God. God’s love for you will never fail and it will never leave you. As long as there is breath in your body that is the very breath of God reminding you of how much he loves you. Begin to remind yourself of the truths. Start with God loves me. Say that until you believe it. Then move from that to, “If God loves me, then I love me.” Say it until you believe it because it’s true. If God loves me, then his love is in me. Therefore, I am the love of God and I too love me.

It is my hope that we remember our value. We are worthy of all the things God designed for us. I hope this week you hold your head up a little bit higher. Smile a little bit brighter. Think more highly of yourself and know you were created with purpose. You are meant to move mountains and do amazing things. You were created with love and everything you think is wrong about you was created on purpose. You are beauty and artistry and divine just the way you are. Remember your greatness. I love you. God Loves you, that is truth and it will never change.

Love ya,

-Juls