If you watch cable news or listen to talk radio, it won’t before an opposing opinion makes your blood boil, expressing a polar opposite worldview from what you hold. When you add in the over dramatization of television along with paranoia expressed through future projections of pending storm systems, its hard to remain calm or maintain a sound mind. Subsequently, I have tried to limit my intake of the media to weekends. This novel concept has led to positive outcome so far in 2016.
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful, Joshua 1:8.
After Moses retires, Joshua is chosen to lead Israel into the promised land. However, the Lord is clear, providing careful instructions for God’s people to follow. Trying to find a way around this system, Achan learns the hard way in Joshua 7, stoned to death along with his entire family. If only Achan listened to Joshua the first time, mediating on the Torah, his fate would have been different. Unfortunately, listening and doing are two different things. Another novel concept is obedience, which must be demonstrated first prior to tasting prosperity and success.
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline, 2 Timothy 1:7.
The final novel concept to developing a sound mind is discipline. You don’t have to sleep all day, watch television for hours or waste countless hours playing video games. According to one of the apostles, God provides the Holy Spirit in times of decision. Don’t allow a weakened work ethic to give into temptation. Feeling defeated is a choice, an attitude for losers. Therefore, tap into God’s Spirit so that when your flesh is weak, Christ power is strong, propelling you toward a sound mind.
by Jay Mankus
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