What We Think About Matters

"We become what we think about!" If we fantasize about being superior to others, while continuing to act like we are, demeaning others to remain true to the illusion of our own grandeur, we live in a state of continual emotional struggle to maintain the position in our own minds.. Our focus on self always brings a crystallization of the brain, solidifying the negative and base things in life, keeping us in a fog contrary to God's law and purpose.

Proverbs 23:7 "7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee."

When Christ is our focus, we can ponder truth, while evaluating what we allow into our lives. The more we know truth the more we are plagued with the injustice of everything around us, however that joy that lives in us from knowing the end of the story, causes us to rejoice that Christ wins and then we go home to glory.

Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."

There are those who believe we are negative because we are continually warning about the pitfalls of sin and rebellion against God. What these people don't realize is that we want people to become born again, saved from their sin and we desire that believers shake off the sin that still remains in them.

We continue in joy knowing that every life experience is a time of learning and growing. As they say "no pain no gain." Those who have few challenges learn less.

We don't dwell on the evil things, we warn about them, so that one day when this life is all over, we can go home knowing we obeyed God, then is when we will get to leave behind all earthly misery. As for now we are obligated to warn others, the time is short.

I am not in a continual state of sadness over all that I see, I become grieved at times, but the joy that dwells in me is greater than everything I experience.

Romans 12:12 "Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer."

James 1:2-8 "2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."