Thoughts...

Where do they come from and where do they go?

How can some stay for so long and others vanish so quickly?

Why can some thoughts torment my soul to a pile of dust

while others cause me to leap for joy?

If the bible tells us to flee from immorality, from all forms of evil;

how do you flee from your own thoughts?

If it instructs us to resist the devil and he will flee from you...

where do we draw the line between fleeing and confrontation?

I mean these are just some thoughts I have, but even at this very moment

my thoughts are warring against each other.

so in the midst of all the chaos, how do we know which

thoughts to take captive and which to run freely?

James says that no man can tame his tongue but yet...

out of this tongue we speak blessings and curses.

Is it not first our thoughts that gives life to the tongue to move.

Or is it a reaction without thought that allows us to say such hurtful things?

Can the tongue act freely or is it linked to the darkness of our minds?

So maybe the inability isn't in controlling our tongue but the reactions and

the freedom of our thoughts...

At one minute a man can burn for passion for his wife. Gaze and fall madly in love

with this magnificent creation in front of him. The next moment satan can walk by

a scantly dressed seductress and give way to a taunting fleet of destructive thoughts.

How can this be and how do we co-exist with such destructive forces?

Is it then our eyes and the way we perceive things that initiates our minds to run wildly?

These thoughts which then grow roots and become our own words.

So where does the battle begin or is it a never ending cycle?

Jesus said if our eyes cause us to sin gouge them out, but he wasnt being literal was he?

As you can see from the many questions I am very perplexed by my thoughts. They are never ending nor never concluding

but always leap frogging from one to the next. Where do my intense emotions for you give birth to thoughts that can exist on

opposite sides of the spectrum. How do we choose what stays and what goes?

We reap what we sow. If my unhealthy sowing robs me of my enjoyment in my own self and causes dark anguish to my soul,

Then my sowing is where I'll start.

Who I hang around with, what I watch, what I read. My intentions and being intentional to grow a relationship with Christ.

What I put into my body and to whom I talk, and what I say. For what goes in must come out.