We have to protect our minds from the myriad of messages that our world wants to put on us. And if we stay completely open to everything, not everything is good for us, right? The scripture talks about that, >> you know, um everything is permissible, but not everything is >> beneficial. >> Beneficial. Thank you for that word.
Um and so I think we have to put boundaries around our mind. We talked about the morning routine. That’s a boundary in and of itself. What am I going to put in my mind for the day? What am I going to put in my ears? >> What am I going to allow uh what am I going to allow me to speak to myself? >> Right? What am I going to allow other people to speak to me? >> Um and really deciding what that needs to to look like to be as healthy as possible because we know that our thoughts impact our feelings impact our behaviors. And so um and the thing we
have the control the most over is our thoughts um to direct those things. >> That’s so true because we I find myself maybe feeling like I don’t have a ton of feeling a ton of control over my feelings. But you what did you I wanted to go back to what you said our thoughts control our feelings and our feelings or was it impact our thoughts impact our feelings our feelings impact our behaviors.
Is that what you said >> and vice versa? It’s kind of like a little a cycle that keeps on going back to each other. Yeah. Right. And we have the least control over our feelings. Totally. They’re very automatic. Right. But we can with our mind, we can guide our feelings and we can guide our behavior. >> And it it does all work together.
But we have the most control over our mind. What’s coming in, what’s going out, what we’re entertaining, what we’re listening to. Yeah. >> Who we’re listening to. Are we listening to ourselves more? Are we listening to God more? And that all involves boundaries. Um, I was in a workout class recently and the trainer said something that I actually felt like was really profound spiritually.
It also felt very profound in that moment. Um, but he said, uh, you need to do a lot more talking to yourself right now than listening to yourself, which in the middle of a workout class, what are you saying to yourself? Well, if you’re like me, you’re probably saying like, I can’t wait for this to be over. Is he going to say >> this is horrible? >> Is he going to say that I’m almost done? >> How many more times do I have to do this? Will anyone notice if I maybe don’t give 100% right now? >> I would rather know how much this hurts
me. >> He does not know what else I brought into this class, you know? And so, but I I thought spiritually that was so profound also because >> that is so true. Like I do need to be talking to myself, which that really goes back to even like opening up God’s word or going back to my gratitude journal or protecting my morning.
Like all of that really fuels what comes into my mind. >> Yeah. And we know I mean scientific research tells us how important it how important what we speak to ourselves is >> what we have >> as Christians at our disposal is truth. >> Yeah. >> Right. So how much more impactful is this is how God sees me than an kind of an empty affirmation.
You know I’m I’m beautiful. I’m wonderful. I’m successful. Right? It’s that’s empty. But when we look at the scripture and we see I’m beloved, >> I’m chosen. I’m not forgotten. That is truth. And that truth just rings true in us and we can believe it better than kind of a madeup mantra that we’re putting on oursel trying to put on ourselves, >> right? The truth is the thing that resonates with the Holy Spirit inside of us.
