Where is your heart?
TRUTH Against The World!
What our mind dwells upon, our mind pays attention to. What our mind considers, infects our heart. What infects our hearts, afflicts our soul.
Simultaneously, what infects our heart, afflicts our mind. Which in turn infects our heart and afflicts our soul.
It is a viciously brutal cycle. Which, is bad enough in and of itself, however, this cycle does not occur in a vacuum.
What infects our hearts afflicts everyone around us. Our inner struggles affect everyone around us. The way we treat others, the way we perceive others, flows from the conditions within our heart.
What do you focus your attention upon?
What do you feed your heart, mind, and soul with?
Take a moment and consider that insidious question.
Should you find the courage to be honest with yourself, you will not like the answer. Which is why I called it an insidious question.
Are you thinking about the insensitive rudeness of an random stranger? Are you angry and or hurt as a result?
If so, your mind and heart are focused upon anger, and your pride.
Are you afraid?
Afraid of circumstances, or consequences, of pain, or loss, of living, afraid of dying, afraid of uncertainties?
If so, your mind and heart are focused upon fear.
What ever you find yourself focused upon, is the center of your world, the mold of your reality, the way in which you see, understand, and relate to everyone and everything.
Money, power, lust, pleasure, fear, anger, hate, desire, ego, pride, envy, all, are shackles, chains that bind you to pain and loss, burdens that break you, self inflicted wounds that bleed and ache and weaken you.
The cycle whirls, a whirlpool dragging everything and everyone around you down into destruction.
Leaving behind, nothing save emptiness, void, loss.
That is NOT life!
That is Not Living!
That is death and dying, decay and destruction.
There is an alternative.
What your mind is focusing on, your heart focuses on. In turn, what lives within your heart manifests itself as your life.
The alternative to death, is life.
The alternative to hate, anger, loneliness, pain, is Love.
The opposite of self, ego, pride, is GOD.
Think about it.
Seriously, think!
If you think about life, blessings, love, peace, joy. If you look for life, blessings, love ,peace, joy, then you are focused upon life, GOD’S blessings, love, peace, joy, then you will find those things.
If you think only of shadows, if you dwell upon the darkness, then, you ignore the light.
Careful, the lines between light and dark , between shadows and day are sharp. If you aren't careful that razors edge can cut you. If you try and straddle that edge it will cut you soul deep.
Daily, minute by minute, hour by hour we choose what our mind and heart dwells upon.
What we focus upon is what we serve.
What would you serve?
Death or Life?
Darkness or Light?
Hate or Love?
Anger or Peace?
Your pride, or GOD?
The Good news is,
You are not alone.
GOD knows you, your name, your being and, GOD loves you.
GOD knows that you are weary, broken, wounded. HE knows and HE cares. HE knows you cannot win the battles of this life on your own. HE wants to help you, to bless you, to heal and uphold you. All you need do is, believe, honestly believe, trust HIM, Love HIM as he Loves you, without limit or restraint.
Focus your mind upon GOD.
Fill your thoughts with HIS word.
Have faith that HE Alone is GOD and HE Will take care of the rest.
For reference:
The Book of John.
The Letter to the Romans,
The Letter to Ephesians.
I can't bring myself to throw this verse and that verse etc.
Context is critical.
Thus, I can only recommend the Full books. Let GOD speak, not me. Let GOD direct you, not me.
I would suggest, looking at a “ Red letter” Bible. A red letter Bible, hilites the Words Spoken by GOD, in red.
Read the words in red.
Trust GOD.
Love GOD,
Believe GOD.