MANAGING YOUR THOUGHTS - a series




Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
The chapter past was important, it’s the foundation of the subject in this book. It’s necessary you take care of chapter one else the rest of the chapters might not profit you. Nevertheless, I still encourage you to read on, may be some light may come to your heart and then you can profit. There are five senses. Among them are the sense of hearing and seeing. The ears and eyes are the major gateway to the mind. Every matter that borders around the human mind finds their way majorly by the sense of seeing and hearing.
How the human minds works is really amazing – your mind. Your mind is a portion of your soul majorly. Your body needs food for survival, your spirit needs the word of God, and your mind (soul) needs thought. Your mind can’t be blank. Yes, not even when you’re sleeping. In essence my friends, you can’t stop your mind from having thoughts. You can only decide what kind of thought your mind should be fed with. Having come this far, let’s see how the mind gets it thought. But remember just as the body needs the right food to grow your mind needs the right thoughts. Let’s see how the mind get it thought from this story.

Gen 3:1-6
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

The story is a conversation between the serpent and the woman. The serpent had engaged the woman in a conversation in other to change her believe. Before the both parties met, the woman had her mind fix on the fact that this particular tree was not good for her consumption. Then the serpent came and began to feed her mind with some kind of thoughts and her sense of hearing was the gateway to receiving it (thought). From verse 4, and 5 the woman had been listening and receiving the thoughts the serpent was passing to her. And in the process she was also meditating on them. How did we know, the outcome in verse 6 shows us?


6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise…

Let me ask you. For some time now the woman had been in the garden, do you think she hasn’t been seeing the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden? Certainly no. just that she hasn’t seen it the way she saw it now. And to add, this was not the only tree that was pleasant to the eyes. Check it below.

 9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food…
Gen 2:9
 Observe Genesis chapter 2 verse 9. Pay attention to chapter 3 verse 6 and chapter 2 verse 9, you’d notice that the woman began to see how pleasant this tree was and that it was good for food. Recall… lust of the eyes... Lust has set in. Notice how chapter 2 verse 6 starts. And when… meaning there was a time before the when and what do you think was her view then.
    

Did you know two person can be seeing the same thing but have different meaning to it. Well some may say perspective – what is behind the perspective?
We could be going on and on citing other similar examples but they will all point to similar conclusion which is our input determines our thought and consequently our output.



Input        [mind process thoughts]             output

So how does the mind gets it thoughts? The answer is from the external: through what we see and hear majorly.

Just as your body needs the right food to grow, your mind needs the right kind of thoughts to be productive



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