Cleaning out Your Closet

 

    The first step in cleaning out your thought closet is to stop the negative self talk.  You are not perfect, but you are not useless either.  You are you.  God made you to be you and no one else.  He knew you were not going to be perfect when He made you and He still made you in love.  Stop beating yourself up with guilt, hopelessness, frustration, or anything else that hurts you.

    Gloomy thoughts brings dirty clutter into your neat and organized mental closet.  It messes with your emotions and thought processes. Satan loves to tell you that you are not good enough, but God tells you how loved you are.  It is time to get a hold on your thoughts.  It is the only way to keep the mess out of your mind.

    Remove negative words from your thesaurus.  They only hurt your soul even if they are spoken about someone else and not yourself.  Other people are God's beloved creations too.  Negative vocabulary leads to insecurities, believing lies, and reminds you of failures that should have been let go of long ago.  They hide the truth about who you are with Jesus.

    Examine your mental closet. Where do you put your thoughts about yourself, other people, and God?  How is it organized?  What areas need cleaning out?  Organizing is easy.  You start with finding a home for one thing and work around the room until it is done.  The same goes with organizing your mental closet.

    Take out the storage bins full of your past hurts and damage.  Allow God to heal that area.  If you allow God to really heal it, then that area becomes stronger.  In the closet it become more sturdy to hold heavier items.  

    Without Jesus, the weight in your closet will become suffocating.  It will crash everything to the ground and you with it.  He brings in the light to really see the mess and hidden areas that need to be fixed.  He enables you to see clearly.  

    Once your mental closet is fixed, cleaned, and organized, you can maintain it by spending time with God every day.  He knows you.  He knows what you need.  He knows what you need to clean out.  You can trust Him to have your best interest in mind.  All you have to do is commit in trusting Him.  Together you can control your thoughts.

Psalm 10:1-6, 40:4-5, 56:5-8, 59:6-10, 92:4-7, 139:17-18, Proverbs 16:1-3, Isaiah 55:8-9, 65:1-5, Jeremiah 29:10-14, Romans 1:21-23, & Hebrews 4:12-13