Do you talk to yourself?
Do your thoughts ever control everything you do?
Does your mind feel out of control?
I know for most of us we have some times
that we feel like we can't get control of our minds.
Everyone can feel a little out of control of our thoughts every once in a while,
But are you the type that it can control you?
Say you start with a thought, I'm failing, I just can't do anything right, why can't I be like them.....
But that thought leads to belief
and that belief leads to how you live your life.
For some of us it's a daily battle......
For me it's a daily battle.
When I'm close to God
(spending time reading my bible and in prayer)
I feel like I can get a better grip on it but.....
then there are those days that I feel out of control.
Like this last weekend,
It was such a fun weekend with family up for the Fourth of July.
It was going to be great
but I was too busy to read my bible (at least I didn't take the time).
As the weekend went along my thoughts just took over more and more everyday.
I have huge trust issues.
Sometimes those thoughts can ruin my day.
I have to fight that battle daily.
I have to stay close to God to fight that battle or I fail,
and I fail all the time.
My thoughts can go from I'm failing to
why would anyone want to be around me in such a short time.
Then pretty soon it's changing how I live my life.
It's changing how I respond to my husband and my children.
It's changing how I interact with family and friends
and it changes the decisions I would make.
As fathers and mothers we often feel like we just can't measure up.
Especially in this day and age.
It's hard with social media.
Your constantly seeing everyone else's perfect lives.
Perfect mothers doing things that you wish you had/took the time to do.
Perfect fathers working long hours and still making time for their families,
when you come home and are exhausted.
How do they all do it?
We are constantly comparing ourselves with others.
The problem with that is not everyone is perfect.
Someone might do something better than you,
but you do some things better than them.
Your comparing their good parts to your not so good parts.
It's time to stop comparing!
It's time to stop letting doubts fill our minds
and fill our lives.
When we allow those thoughts in,
they find fertile soil to plant seeds of doubt.
Pretty soon our thoughts are our feelings
and you feel defeated.
Jesus calls the enemy the "father of lies",
and sometimes those thoughts are easier to hear than God's words.
I have been doing a Beth Moore bible study and something she said just hit me.
She said "We can't let Satan shut us in or he wins the battle.
He's trying to make wound lickers out of warriors.
When God opens the door again let's stand back up,
brush ourselves off and step through it."
I have verses and quotes hanging up around my mirror in the bathroom
so when I get am doing my hair I can read them and be encouraged.
This is my newest and most valued one
at this time in my life.
I read this every morning to remember that
I'm God's Warrior,
I'm not a wound licker.
Like I said I struggle with this daily.
That kinda even seems like an understatement.
I STRUGGLE with it daily.
I doubt myself, I look down on myself, I doubt my husband
and I let it take over our lives.
I personally have to give my doubt over to God on the daily basis,
the hourly basis, and sometimes the minute basis.
God never fails to help.
The Lord will always ease my mind if I truly give it over to him.
He's always there.
He's always waiting for us to reach to him.
He's always waiting to take away our doubt.
WE just have to be willing to let him.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Romans 12:2
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