Thought is the real causative force in life, and there is no other. You cannot have one kind of mind and another kind of environment. You cannot change your environment while leaving your mind unchanged. This is the real key to life; if you change your mind your conditions must change too—your body must change, your activities must change; your home must change; the color tone of your whole life must change.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind… (Romans 12:2).
This may be called the Great Cosmic Law. The practical difficulty in applying it arises from the fact that our thoughts are so close to us that it is difficult, without a little practice, to stand back and look at them objectively. Yet that is just what you must learn to do. You must train yourself to choose the subject of your thinking at any given time, and also to choose the emotional tone.
If you are not determined to start in now and carefully select all day the kind of thoughts that you are going to think, you may as well give up all hope of shaping your life into the kind of things that you want it to be. The way to start on a seven-day mental diet is to begin now.
Make no mistake about, this is work. It is the mental equivalent of digging up all the foundations of your home and rebuilding it from the ground up. But unless we understand and practice this principle, our lives will be as a castle built on sand that can be washed away with each tide. When we are controlling out thoughts and emotions and directing them to God and good, then our lives are on an immovable rock foundation that will with stand even the greatest storms. We will then be at peace in our lives and whatever difficulties we face will not cause us doubt, fear or anger. Further, it will give us the hope, confidence and strength to count our blessings and live each day in appreciation for all our gifts and for another day of life.
On the Rock,
Stan
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