Dealing With Negative ThoughtsSample

To deal with negative thoughts is not to say that you won’t have moments of sadness, anger, or frustration.

The fact is, you are going to continue to experience moments of adversity, or times in which you may not have the best outlook on your current situation.

To be human is to feel all of these emotions at various moments within our lives.

To have faith, however, is to recognize that while things may not always be going the way that you want, you are ultimately protected by the blood of Jesus Christ and the guidance of the Lord despite what may be going on around you.

Moses struggled with self-confidence.

King David dealt with lust.

Job faced extreme loss.

All of these individuals struggled with negative thinking, and for each this thinking was the result of very different circumstances. Yet still, regardless of the object of their poor thinking and often poor decision making, God encouraged them and provided them with guidance through it all. God didn’t tell them that they had no reason to be upset. Instead, He showed empathy towards them. He understood the pain that they felt, and the difficulty that they were facing.

God stood beside them. In times of grace and of sin. In moments of prosperity and destruction.

Nowhere in the Bible does it promise that we’ll have an easy life. Yet, in numerous moments does scripture explain our need to take our concerns, our frustrations, and our fears, and lay them before God.

When I have moments in which negative thinking rears its ugly head, I make a point to talk to God about it. Whatever it is, He has heard it, seen it, met it, and defeated it!

Negative thoughts must be dealt with. They can’t be swept under the rug, because then they might take root in the foundation! We must bring them to God, so that He may deal with them and guide us on how to manage our own mindset.