“If constructive thoughts are planted
positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure
will follow.”
- Sidney Madwed (self-help-and-self-development.com)
Thoughts, we all have them, and whether we know it or not they define who we are, and where we are going in life. Thoughts discern our directions because they are what lead us. Subconsciously they determine our actions as a direct response to what we believe will happen given the determining set of factors that make up an event. If we believe we fail every time a certain set of events take place, then our minds will gladly direct us to make sure that what we believe will come true. However, if we believe we will win given those same set of circumstances, our minds develop and ascertain directions to take us in the route of winning.
This is really not all that
complicated, even the bible points out how important what and how we think is. Philippians
4:8 says…
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
How we think is so
important to our actions and responses that great men in history studied and
reprogrammed themselves for years just to change small parts of themselves to
how they wanted individual aspects of their lives to be. It was said that
before Benjamin Franklin decided to change his thinking that men would rather
cross the dirt street and clean their shoes than talk with him. This is the
same man that the founding fathers looked to for his opinion on framing the constitution. (Woodward,
2011)
“All that we are is a result of what we have thought” Buddha
“I will not say I have failed one thousand times, I will say that I
discovered there are one thousand ways that can cause failure” Thomas
Edison
Some may think this a
new concept, but for centuries God has tried to persuade men to renew their
minds, their thoughts, into a more directed understanding that surpasses the
limits that we set for ourselves. We are so unlimited in our potential that we
have to be bridled by moral guidelines to protect us, well… from us. It is not
through the lack of ability that we fail, but through our own self limitation
based on lies told to us by others or the wrongly interpreted events in our
past.
We as individuals need to rise up to
the knowledge of who we truly are in Christ, and the unlimited potential in
each and every one of us. Only then will we break the chains that we have truly
placed upon ourselves.
