It takes real character to do what's right when no one else is doing it.
The division is all around us, creeping into spaces overtaking places causing confusion. Planting seeds of doubt producing choking weeds, faltering any good that attempt to sprout.
So goes outwardly in the physical as in the mentality of thinking.
Fools rush in, in similarity to the barrage of unsolicited thoughts invading. The importance of adding salt for the flavor to purify behavior is the essence of our character. Chiseled and shaped by our thoughts and actions.
Every Thought My Choice is your call for reason to bring every thought into servitude under the obedience of right-thinking - righteousness, morality, decency, purity, justice, your character.
Our gratitude expression begins a flow of reasoning (the wisdom that surpasses limited understanding)—rising above the indecency of anything that attempts to steal our dignity that corrupts good character.
Be careful how you think, where your thoughts may wander, for out of the abundance of our heart (our thinking), we speak. What is it that you talk, that freely flows autonomously, is it suitable for building and instructive character, pulling down the strongholds! "The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).
It is no longer slight in the manner perception is being altered.
A far more familiar quote from the same book is:
"Love endures with patience and serenity; love is kind and thoughtful and is not jealous or envious; love does not brag and is not proud or arrogant. It is not rude; it is not self-seeking; it is not provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; it does not consider a wrong endured. It does not rejoice at injustice but rejoices with the truth [when right and truth prevail]. Love bears all things [regardless of what comes], believes all things [looking for the best in each one], hopes all things [remaining steadfast during difficult times], endures all things [without weakening].
Love never fails [it never fades nor ends]. But as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for the gift of special knowledge, it will pass away." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Never become too familiar with the subtle provocations that take away, as a false perception of who you are. You can always change the way you think; therefore, will today be your day to decide and recognize that you can bring sweet or sour or ultimately salt for flavor and preservation of your character expressed through your choices. Every Thought My Choice begins now by faith in the process of moving forward, being transformed by renewing your mind, and discovering optimal ways of living a life of excellence! But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Remember, relax, dream big!
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