"You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You."
Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV)
We have all had the experience of watching something on television and then deciding that we did not want to see what we were watching. And we have all had the experience that when something like this happened that we simply changed the channel. If we are watching some sports program and we want to watch the news, we just change the channel. It is not some big thing to do, and we do not even give it any thought, we just change the channel from what we are currently watching to something that we want to see.
There are people who deal with things like anxiety, fear, and depression, things which are usually summed up as mental health issues. But why do people have these things in their life? Why are some people anxious, fearful, or depressed, and why is it some people are not anxious, afraid, or depressed? When I have talked to people about these issues, sometimes people act as though they have nothing to do with those things, but when people have these problems in their life, in their thoughts, it is often because they are thinking about the wrong things.
Just like changing the channel on a television, if we are having the wrong kind of thoughts, we need to change what we are thinking about. Sometimes people make it sound as though this is not possible, but it is possible, or the Bible would not tell us in Isaiah 26:3 that God will keep us in peace if our mind, our thinking is stayed, focused, on Him. We need to know what the Bible says, and when wrong thoughts come, we need to change the channel to think about what God's Word says, instead of the negative and harmful thoughts we may have had before.
Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV)
We have all had the experience of watching something on television and then deciding that we did not want to see what we were watching. And we have all had the experience that when something like this happened that we simply changed the channel. If we are watching some sports program and we want to watch the news, we just change the channel. It is not some big thing to do, and we do not even give it any thought, we just change the channel from what we are currently watching to something that we want to see.
There are people who deal with things like anxiety, fear, and depression, things which are usually summed up as mental health issues. But why do people have these things in their life? Why are some people anxious, fearful, or depressed, and why is it some people are not anxious, afraid, or depressed? When I have talked to people about these issues, sometimes people act as though they have nothing to do with those things, but when people have these problems in their life, in their thoughts, it is often because they are thinking about the wrong things.
Just like changing the channel on a television, if we are having the wrong kind of thoughts, we need to change what we are thinking about. Sometimes people make it sound as though this is not possible, but it is possible, or the Bible would not tell us in Isaiah 26:3 that God will keep us in peace if our mind, our thinking is stayed, focused, on Him. We need to know what the Bible says, and when wrong thoughts come, we need to change the channel to think about what God's Word says, instead of the negative and harmful thoughts we may have had before.
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