For Out of the Overflow of the Heart the Mouth Speaks

    I started again reading the Bible verses I wrote several years ago on index cards which I read everyday while walking around our compound. I wrote about this here.

    And this verse I read was on top of those index cards I was talking about.

Matthew 12:34-37   

For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted and by your words you will be condemned.


    This led me to think of what's in my heart. I would like to think that my heart is full of love and joy and peace and sympathy. But is it, really? Analyzing myself and looking into the innermost part of my heart, this I became aware of, in my heart is pride, bitterness, haughtiness, apathy, anger, resentment. There could be more if I will keep on probing. There was extreme sadness while doing this but then I realized it was the Holy Spirit that led me to this. Unless I know what is wrong with me, it will be hard for me to change. And God wants me to change. He wants me to guard my heart because He tests my heart, He knows what is in it. Whatever is in my heart, it will reflect on what I say and do.

    I want to share this which I read in www.keepbelieving.com

Negative thoughts:
  • If you think angry thoughts, angry words are sure to follow.
  • If you fill your mind with sexual fantasies, your body will find a way to fulfill those desires.
  • If you dwell on your problems, they will soon over­whelm you.
  • If you feel like a victim, soon you will become one.
  • If you give way to worry, don’t be surprised when you get ulcers.
  • If you focus on how others misunderstand you, you will soon become angry and bitter.

Positive thoughts:    
  • If you focus on the truth, you will speak the truth.
  • If you look on noble things, nobility will mark your life.
  • If you seek out lovely things, your life will be lovely to others.
  • If you dwell on the right, the wrong will seem less attractive to you.
  • If you look for virtue, you will find it.
  • If you search for higher things, you will elevate your own life.

    We are not what we think we are, but what we think, we are.


    

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