am I talking to myself?

I often have conversations in my head, don’t you? It’s normal…I think. But I just realized something important about my ‘conversations’. In the book “Humility” by CJ Mahaney, he asks the question – “Did you spend more time speaking truth to yourself, or was most of your time spent listening to yourself?” I had never thought of it that way before. He goes on to say, “As we stumble through our morning routine, we’re not directing the thoughts in our mind – we’re simply at their mercy…We’re not in charge of our thinking. We’re just there.” I don’t want to be ‘just there’, it sounds like I’m drifting. I have come to realize that my battle with sin begins in my MIND. So when my thoughts ‘drift around’, they usually land in bad places. So what am I going to do now? This book gives some good suggestions on ways to renew my thinking. Mahaney says that he’s learned to “go on the offensive. I’ve chosen to announce to sin, ‘I’m at war with you. I know you’re there, and I’m after you.’” I want to be filling my brain with God’s Word and to be telling myself TRUTH instead of listening to my racing thoughts. There is another thing I can do to help me in the battle. Invest in others. I can think more of my wife and children. I can encourage and pray for the people in our small group. I can care more about others rather than being so inwardly focused. Wow, it sounds like being more like Christ. I need help. Please pray for me to learn this. And ask me how I’m doing.

Staying in the Battle,
Geoff