Think On These Things

"Think on These Things"

I made this journal for myself to remind me of the importance of keeping my thoughts focused on Godly things. I have a tendency to fall into negative self-talk, and if I'm not careful, the negative self-talk will take root & start to overshadow the Godly thoughts. That's when I start to slide onto depression & apathy - two places that I find it unbelievably difficult to recover from.

The time I spend in God's Word gives me an infinite number of true, honest, just, pure, lovely, virtuous, praise-worthy and good things to fill my thoughts with. These thoughts will always chase away the negative self-talk for me.

So how about you? Are you hurting yourself with your self-talk? Are the tapes that play over and over in your thoughts negatively effecting the way you spend your days?

If so, try overcoming the negative with the Godly & think on these things instead.

Brave Enough to Seek Beauty

If we spend our time looking for the beautiful in people & situations,

we won't have time to dwell on their faults. 

Grace & Mercy 

are such powerful gifts 

when you can offer them to others,

but are you always willing to receive them? 

It is important for us to do our best to see in ourselves what God sees:

beauty

He has already offered the gifts of

Grace & Mercy

to each and every one of us. 

My question to you is this:

have you truly accepted them 

or are you still trying to work hard enough

so you feel you deserve them?

I hate to burst your bubble,

but you'll never be able to work hard or long enough

to deserve these precious gifts. 

But...

because He loves us so much,

God offers them freely to us.

So friends, my question to you now is this:

Do you have the courage to accept them?

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