A Healthy Thought-Life (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you for giving us the opportunity to come to you today, the last day of the week, Saturday. We trust that you have had a good week and the things that we have been learning together, day by day, have been encouraging and strengthening you emotionally and mentally, that is what we have been talking about through the course of this week. As we close out this week, I want to encourage us to pursue a healthy thought life. If you want to have a healthy body, we are encouraged to eat healthy, then we can have a healthy body. Similarly, in order to have a healthy mind or a good mental health or to be emotionally whole, it is important to maintain a healthy thought life. Philippians chapter 4, verse 8, the apostle Paul writes for us, ‘Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.’ He is pointing us to think about things that are good and noble. What occupies your mind, is important of your mental health and wellbeing. What you feed your mind with, is important for your mental health. Sadly, our access to information today is in some ways good, but in some ways is also detrimental, if we are not careful to filter out things that are contrary to the things that we read in scripture, things that are opposite to this, things that are impure, that are not of good report, that are not praiseworthy, that are not virtuous, that are not noble. If we feed our mind with these wrong ingredients/ negative things, it is going to be detrimental to our mental health. So, you and I, are responsible for our own mental health, and it happens as we follow the instruction here in scripture, to make sure we feed our mind with good things, with the word of God. Be careful what you expose your mind to on social media or television or the internet, cut off things that are unnecessary, that are not good. Feed your mind with things that educate you, that stir up your mind intellectually, that are good, that will help you in whatever you are doing professionally or other areas that you are engaged in, feed your mind with good, healthy things then you and I can walk in good mental health. Let the word of God be your guide, if there is anything that contradicts God’s truth, that is not honest, not truthful, has no integrity or virtue, that doesn’t come from a person of good, godly character, leave those things out and feed yourself with good things mentally. Let’s pray, Lord, grant us wisdom, so that we feed our mind with good things, that we contemplate on good things, we occupy our thoughts with good things so that we can have good health mentally and emotionally, give us wisdom on this, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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