"No one is born a winner or loser, but each one is born a chooser." How true. I was a chooser...in every area of my life. Oh, I may not always choose my circumstances, but I would always be in charge of choosing my responses to those circumstances. I reflect on some of the thoughts I was choosing to entertain about circumstances and people that day - rather negative, critical, impatient thoughts. God reminded me that a response in life always begins with a thought. Left alone, these thoughts would surely spiral me down and impact my responses in the same way. The choice was mine. God's Word came to my mind. "We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5b).
Thoughts are the seeds in our lives that result in actions and responses. We choose to let them stay or to take them captive and throw them out. Have you been allowing seeds of thought in your mind and heart that you do not want growing in my life? You are a chooser. God's Holy Spirit is our Helper. He draws us on to be what we, in our own strength, cannot be. Where are your thoughts today? Being aware of what you are choosing to dwell on puts you in a proactive position. Before thoughts of irritation and frustration grow into angry, bitter roots, choose to ask God's Holy Spirit to help you take those thoughts captive and to respond to your circumstances with His grace, love and wisdom.
Thoughts are the seeds in our lives that result in actions and responses. We choose to let them stay or to take them captive and throw them out. Have you been allowing seeds of thought in your mind and heart that you do not want growing in my life? You are a chooser. God's Holy Spirit is our Helper. He draws us on to be what we, in our own strength, cannot be. Where are your thoughts today? Being aware of what you are choosing to dwell on puts you in a proactive position. Before thoughts of irritation and frustration grow into angry, bitter roots, choose to ask God's Holy Spirit to help you take those thoughts captive and to respond to your circumstances with His grace, love and wisdom.
~Father God, Thank you that You have equipped me with Your Holy Spirit to live day by day. Today I ask You to help me take captive thoughts that will spiral me down and cause me to react in ways I don't want to. Help me to remember I am a chooser. Where I have neglected to choose in the past and negative roots have grown, help me to have wisdom to know how to weed them out. I look to You today to help me tend the seeds that come into my heart and mind and to choose what I will let grow. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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