I am What I Think

The Bible teaches us that we are what we think or believe in our hearts.

I also find when I think of a person I have an emotional bond with, I experience what they are going through. That used to happen a lot with my mum. I was constantly feeling her physical pain. At the time, I put up with it because I love her.

A few weeks ago, on the way to work, I thought of a very good friend. I wondered how he was. 

When I got off the bus, I noticed I was feeling pain around my heart. I knew it was because I had been thinking about my friend who has had heart issues in the past.

As I was walking to work, I kept thinking about Jesus instead.  Within a few minutes, the pain had dissolved. 

The same friend was actually in hospital recently as he was having heart pain, but it wasn't anything serious, thank God.

I am what I think.

When I meditate on verses in the Bible, I get to experience their truth in my life.

When I think of Jesus, whose name is above all names, I experience His poweful presence which dissolves all negative experiences. 

When I am mentally still, I am thinking of God, who is stillness. ❤️

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Relevant Bible verses:

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46: 10

"Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life." Proverbs 4: 23

"For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23: 7

"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth," Philippians 2:5-10

"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3: 16-17