Roots to Thinking

 

    The roots to how you think is revealed in how you live.  If your roots are in scripture then you will live a faithful, holy, and loving life.  If your roots are in your own perspective, then you live out bitterness and corruption.  Faulty thinking leads to negative behavior and habits.  This thinking leads to destructive emotions.

    If you need life to change, then you have to do some work to make it change.  God to God to reveal the roots that need to be removed and destroyed.  Let go of defensiveness and hypersensitivity.  Not everything this about you.  Allow God to help you learn what to destroy, let go of, and what to change to help you grow healthy, life-giving roots.

    Perfectionism roots need to be destroyed.  That thinking only leads to things never being enough.  It will only make you exhausted and unhappy.  It feeds into insecurity, anger, intolerance, and more negative feelings.  

    Your roots are a powerful source in running your life.  If you have negative roots, then sometimes repentance and confession is not enough. You sometimes have to starve it, dig deep to get every spec of the root, and burn it then and there so it can't return.  It takes work, disgust with the root, and determination to change.  You have to change your perspective and be determined to never allow it to control you again.

    The roots that come from God do not produce bad qualities.  Pride, insecurity, and all other unhealthy aspects of you come from worldly roots.  If you want good self-esteem, then you have to stop focusing on you and focusing on what God says about you.  God's commands may sound hard at times, but if it is correcting your thinking then it is beneficial.

    God fights for you.  Will you fight for you too?  You can walk in confidence and obedience as your roots of faith grow deep.  Confront lies with truth.  God's Word is your weapon.  All good aspects of who you are come from Jesus.  The Holy Spirit is trying to teach you this truth, so you can see yourself the way He sees you.

Deuteronomy 1:26-33, Proverbs 23:6-8, Hosea 9:15-16, Matthew 7:15-20, Mark 9:23-24, Galatians 5:22-23, Philippians 1:9-11, Hebrews 12:14-17