Take Control of Your Thoughts

“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”

—MARK TWAIN

Collect your thoughts, yes, unbend yourselves.

—Zephaniah 2:1

Confused and complicated thoughts produce a confused and complicated approach to everything. Where the mind goes, the man follows! If you want your life to change, your thoughts must also change. The Bible says in order to experience the good plan God has for us, we must completely renew our minds. We must learn to think like God thinks! Would God worry about what you worry about? Would He think the same things about people you have thought? The truth is, it is not our circumstances making us so unhappy; it is the way we look at them. As I said in the beginning of this book, life is probably not going to change, so we must change our approach to it.

You can begin a revolution in your life today by simply changing the way you see things and think about them. Can we control our thoughts, or do we have to just think whatever comes to mind? Of course, we can control our thoughts. We have free will and can learn to choose our thoughts carefully. The mind is the battlefield, and Satan will certainly try to plant all kinds of wrong thoughts in our minds. He hopes we will receive his lies and that he will win the battle for our lives. You see, he knows if he gets our minds, he will get us.

God’s Word teaches us to cast down wrong thoughts (see 2 Corinthians 10:4–5), and if God tells us to do it, then we can do it. Learn God’s Word so you can know truth and be able to refuse to think on anything that enters your mind other than truth. I will admit it is a battle at first, but like any other battle, if you keep at it, you will win. You will experience victory!

You live in a house made of thoughts, so if it is time to remodel, get started right away. There is no time like the present to start thinking about things that will benefit you.