by Max Lucado
Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Monitor your default thoughts. Most of us are unaware of the inner dialogue we carry on with ourselves each day. Appraisals. Criticisms. Assumptions. They are knee-jerk reactions. “I’m so stupid.” “I’ll never get this under control.”
When self-criticism or worry plays like a tape in your head, there is always a reason. Someone trained you to think this way. They are the result of injury after injury, influence after influence, regret after regret—days, years, decades of immobilizing notions until a person cannot escape.
Does the voice in your head speak with proper authority? Odds are good that many of your thoughts emerge from an unqualified origin. I hope you come to view each thought through the lens of God’s Word. He, and he alone, has the authority to tell you how to think.
God Made Our Brains. He Can Retrain Our Brains.
Stuck in your head? Hounded by regrets? Weighed down by worry? Change is possible! The thoughts that have characterized your past need not characterize the rest of your life.
In Tame Your Thoughts, Max explores three key thought-management tools and then applies them to the most common thought problems: worry, guilt, anxiety, and other types of mental quicksand that threaten to trap us. God loves us too much to let us lead a life marked by poor thinking. He has not left us alone in this battle of the mind.
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