Quarantine Soul Care: Change Your Thought Patterns

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This is part of an ongoing series during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. To engage further in the #QuarantineSoulCare series, click here.

When rain falls on a hill, the water drains off. How does it drain off? In rivulets. Initially, they are just small rivulets, but each time rain falls, the rivulets cut deeper and deeper. They can become deep chasms.
Now let’s compare these rivulets with thought patterns in our minds. The longer we think along any given line, the stronger that thought pattern becomes. Every time we react in a certain way, we reinforce that thought pattern. This is how habits are formed. …
While we can’t cover up our thoughts with a mental bulldozer, we can build a dam in our minds when certain thoughts begin. We can refuse to think them. We can say, “I will not allow myself to think that.” …
Changing thought patterns is not just “putting away” by building dams, but also “putting on” by building new patterns. It is not just suppressing, but redirecting our thoughts into healthy, positive ways of thinking. …
This is where Scripture comes in. Verses or concepts of Scripture can be used to build these dams which check our thinking: … “Don’t think that way; think this way.” This redirects those thought patterns into positive directions. “Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right” (Philippians 4:8, TLB). … Then the energy from [God’s] enormous source of power flows through us and energizes us to do the very thing we want to do and that He wants to do. Thus, it is not by our efforts that this is accomplished. He produces the change, but we must make the choice.


Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.
–Colossians 3:1-2, The Message

 
Today, may you fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right, and may you experience the energy from God’s source of power flowing through you. #quarantinesoulcare Click To Tweet


Today’s reading was taken from NavClassics, excerpt by George Sanchez.

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