Proverbs 4:23 (NCV) “Be careful what you think about because your thoughts run your life!”
Thus, your thoughts control your life. You are what you think. Your thoughts control your life, but you can control your thoughts.
Proverbs 4:23(TEV) “Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.”
Proverbs 4:23(NLT)” Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do.”
The mind is the control centre of your life; a wrong mind always produces a wrong life. The mind controls our actions, our actions determine our habits and our habits the foundation of our character. We constantly need to guard our mind. A guard symbolises protection and watchfulness.
Spurgeon writes – “The heart is just the reservoir of man, and our life is allowed to flow in its proper season. That life may flow through different pipes—the mouth, the hand, the eye; but still all the issues of hand, of eye, of lip, derive their source from the great fountain and central reservoir, the heart; and hence there is no difficulty in showing the great necessity that exists for keeping this reservoir, the heart, in a proper state and condition, since otherwise that which flows through the pipes must be tainted and corrupt. May the Holy Spirit now direct our meditations.”
Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) “Guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life”
What you allow to get rooted in your heart determines what you will be!
Luke 6:45 (NLT) “A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.”
The bottom line behind all this is, change your thoughts, and you will change your world.
Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV) “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”
You are what you think. Your thoughts are what you think. You can choose what you can think about. You need to start thinking about your thoughts. Many of our problems are because we allow other people to put thoughts in our minds, instead of choosing them for ourselves. We are to choose our thoughts better. We must be intentional about our thoughts. Ask, whether you really want to think about this now? When you get worried, ask yourself, do I really want to think about worrying now? Do not think about thoughts that are getting you down. Think about what you think about.
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
Colossians 3:2 (ESV) “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”
Proverbs 27:19 (ESV) “As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.”
Your thoughts control your life, but you can control your thoughts, your life is shaped by your thoughts.