Our thoughts are what makes our daily life what it is. If I start every day with doubt, no motivation, and discouragement, that is precisely the kind of day I’ll have.
If I adjust my mind to thoughts filled with promise, encouragement, and hope, I can pretty much count on that kind of day. The point is… you and I become what we think about.
Our mind is a "thought factory" with hundreds of thousands of thoughts each day. Your “thought factory” has two "Bosses". One we’ll call Mr. Yeshua, the other Mr. DeCeefer.
Mr. Yeshua specializes in giving you reasons to face life with a positive attitude, he helps you handle what comes your way, he tells you that you're more than able to face things with strength and courage. "That no matter what comes along in life, he will be with you".
Mr. DeCeefer is an expert in the opposite direction. He whispers reasons why you cannot succeed, he makes you think in the negative sense, he convinces you that you may as well accept that you will always be a failure and everything in life is stacked against you. That you just can't win no matter what! And he is expecting you to believe him.
When you start to work on having positive thoughts, Mr. Yeshua will make sure that one encouraging thought after another fills your thought factory. But Mr. DeCeefer is always hiding out in the shadows...just waiting for something negative to enter your thought factory. And when it enters, he immediately starts with the discouraging, destructive whispering that will have you believing demoralizing and life wrecking ideas about yourself. Like "You only have bad luck" and "the world is against you".
You must understand one important thing. All our thoughts, whether positive or negative, grow stronger each time we think them. That's why some people stay in that negative, depressive mood . . . and why some people always seem to be in a positive good mood. Their thoughts are always the same.
If every day you put some water in the gas tank of your car, the engine will start running rough and sooner or later it will just stop running altogether. Dead on the side of the road... in the world. And Mr. DeCeefer will be waiting with open arms.
But if you put only gas in the tank, your car runs smoothly and gets you where you want to go. And Mr Yeshua will be waiting with open arms to take you all the way home.
By now, I'm sure you have probably figured out that Mr Yeshua is Jesus Christ and Mr DeCeefer is Satan. I thought it may make this more readable to some people and less of a "sermon".
We must remember above all that our thought factory has two "bosses". But one "boss" has a super great foreman... and his name is the Holy Spirit. So if Mr DeCeefer is the boss of your thought factory, may I suggest you quit working for him and go to work in Mr Yeshua's thought factory.
You'll be amazed at how smoothly your “factory" will begin to operate under your new leadership.
This turned out to be a kind of "history" in my Christian growth, or what some may consider...a lack of. And it was written in part by my laziness,forgetfulness and whim. But it was written mostly by accident!
