Freeze That Thought

There is a spiritual and mental exercise I call “brain freeze.” Brain freeze is when you stop a thought dead in its tracks before it becomes something else. Why? Because your thoughts become feelings, and your feelings generally become your actions. Thinking negative thoughts? Your feelings and actions will reflect that.

Have you ever prepared for an argument before it happened? I know I’ve rehearsed in my mind what I would say if the opportunity arose to tell off my boss or someone else who had offended me. I was going to give that person a “piece of my mind.”

The next thing I knew, that conversation became reality, and it didn’t go well for me. Why? Because I made that argument happen – an argument I should have never had.  You can also think of it this way: God has drawn a line in the sand and called it “sin.” You and I tend to get as close to that line as we can, often putting our toes right on it while we say, “I’m not sinning yet. I’m good.” The question that needs to be asked is, “Why am I even close to the line? Why aren’t I a mile away from it?”

It’s like that with your thoughts. You take them right up to the line where they become actions, then act all shocked and shaken that you’ve crossed that line.

“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” 2 Corinthians 10:5

Next time you start imagining a scenario or practicing the words you’ll say in a confrontation, brain freeze! Take that thought captive and cast it down.