Our brains can be our biggest asset or greatest downfall. The choice is all ours. Whether you believe our brain is a piece of matter created by some abstract science or an intricate piece of functional art created by God, the fact still remains that we may never understand fully the very organ that enables us to understand in the first place. Try to make sense of that one for awhile, phew. The fact is, our brains are complicated and I often wonder about the vast amount of power and information that we are unable to process, recognize, or use. I'm no expert, but I am starting to learn that your brain can control you unless you choose to control it. We must take responsibility for controlling the way we think. There are so many aspects of this life that cannot be understood by us, because God doesn't wish to reveal it. In fact, the Bible hints several times at a spiritual realm, in which angels and demons are in warfare on earth, that we are completely unaware of. This may seem like a fantasy, but if we as a society can accept the presence of other "invisible" ailments, it is easy for me to imagine that this could be the affect that this invisible warfare is having on our spirits. Not only is there spiritual warfare that is unseen, but we are each fighting wars of our own all the time, invisible or not. Whether these are mental or physical struggles brought on by life and our world, we must stay vigilant in realizing that satan is always looking to capitalize on our weaknesses by turning us away from God. This is true for a cancer patient who begins to doubt their worth in the world, who falls into deep resentment towards God for the disease that ails them. This is true for the person recovering from an intense surgery, like my grandma, who find it hard to believe that their tiny bits of improvement each day will ever amount to full healing. This is true for people like me, who still wonder every once in awhile if they will ever win the battle against anxiety, or any other kind of mental illness. It is true for the teenage girl who doesn't know her own worth. It is true for everybody. These negative thoughts and worries are not from God. They are from satan. "And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light" (2 Corinthians 11:14). the devil and his demons will fight and go to war to get you to believe their lies as truth and turn you from God. Once you begin believing this, your brain molds to these lies. Now, not only are external factors causing these negative thoughts in your brain but the mind itself begins to perpetuate and believe the thinking. The lies are strong, play on our weaknesses, and infiltrate deeply... if we let them. If we don't fight against the lies that we believe every day, we are allowing feelings of worthlessness, anxiety, sickness, depression, etc to sneak into our soul like the serpent in the garden of Eden. It’s all about training your brain to believe truths and positivity. As I learn and practice this, I have began to do a cheesy little exercise for whenever I am believing satan's lies ("negative self talk" for those of you who like to follow buzz words). I take the lie I am believing, put it into words, and tell it the truth. Look at it like you're correcting that annoying person at work or in class who is always wrong but thinks they’re right. Okay, lets try it. I guess I'll use my own lies I believe as an example since no one else seems to be volunteering ;)
This is my challenge: think about what lies you believe in your life and how you perpetuate your own reality. What is the truth? Write these lies down and tell them the truth. If you want to comment them below or text me with them I would love to talk about it. Love Jaci
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