BLOCKED BY THE MIND

I was driving down the highway this morning and found myself behind a semi-truck. Now I view speed limits as a good suggestion within 5 to 10 mph. I was slowed up to the 55 mph limit and felt I was in slow motion but I noticed everyone else behind me and this semi were following behind. I went about two miles this way staring at the boring dirty back doors of the trailer that had no interesting writing on them like some do. I said to myself, "Enough of this", and I went into the right lane and went past this semi-truck feeling like Tony Stewart of NASCAR and to my amazement the highway was wide open in front of me with nothing in my way or to slow me down... yeah!

I started to reflect that we humans so many times allow ourselves to stay stuck behind in life by our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and what others say to us or write about us. We allow others and mostly ourselves to be blocked from our hopes, dreams, and destiny. We bombard ourselves with doubts, for example from this list:
if only
I never will
I never can
nobody will ever let me
I can't
I am too... old... poor... ugly... fat... uneducated... weak... unlucky... (fill in the blank).
We dwell on the negatives about ourselves imagined or not and completely ignore the positives about ourselves.

When sin entered the world part of that disease was negative thoughts and doubts came to destroy our once positive outlook on life. There is a real power in our thoughts and our words and when we dwell on the negative then we reap the negative. But when we dwell on the positive we reap the positive which is a spiritual law.

Proverbs 18:21 The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.

Never underestimate the power of your thoughts and words... I encourage you to tap into the warrior within you and be the victor and cast out the victim mentality, doubts, and negative words and thoughts in your life.

If we will not let our negative thoughts and words block us as the semi-truck blocks our vision ahead of the road we will find the road of life wide open with no obstacles to our hopes, dreams, and opportunities.

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