Directing Your Thoughts
Day 291
Memories can be a blessing, but they can also have the opposite effect. When you remember your loved one, what dominates your thoughts -- good, wholesome, loving memories? Or things you would rather not remember at all?
"Scripture tells you to direct your focus and attention to those things that are pure, right, and true," says Jim Grassi. "It doesn't say focus your attention, all your anxiety, and all your worry on all the things that are bad."
With God's help, turn your thoughts around. This may be a daily, moment-by-moment battle if negative thinking has been a pattern for you.
"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5).
Lord, I am prepared to take my negative thoughts captive and make them obedient to Christ -- beginning now! Amen.
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