“Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful apart from Me” (John 15:4).
Perhaps you are one of those unfortunate people who go through life and are very easily hurt. Perhaps you are so sensitive about what others say and think about you that your whole life has become nothing but continuous misery. If you allow this condition to continue, it could seriously affect your mental and spiritual health. What a challenging thought that this is your own responsibility.
God gave you the responsibility of choice. You choose your thoughts and attitudes yourself, and you determine whether you will live on the mountain peaks of hope or in the valleys of despair. You might think these conditions are created by circumstances or your specific situation, but on a much deeper level it is the power of your own thoughts that shape you into what you are.
This thought can be overwhelming if it isn’t colored by the awareness of a Higher Authority. As it is possible for your thoughts to control your actions, it is also possible for the Spirit of Christ to control your thoughts. When you welcome the Spirit into every part of your life, He takes control of your thinking and you discover that the petty things that hurt you, don’t have the power to harm you anymore. Christ’s Spirit inside you is bigger than any influence or insult.
Dear Savior, because You are in me, I am able to meet and overcome all negative and evil forces. Amen.
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. ~C.S. Lewis~
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