Surrender Your Mind
By: Umeko Smith
It’s so easy to get wrapped up in our flawed emotions, negative thoughts and speech, and our endless shortcomings isn’t it? It’s also very easy for us to see all the wrong things that have happened to us and never see all that is going well. I experienced this first hand recently. I noticed how much I had been feeding myself negative self talk and thoughts.
The way the enemy makes us feel defeated is in the mind. I’ve been reading a devotional about the battlefield of the mind in my bible app. It’s a good one to look up and read. In it the writer tells of all the tricks the enemy tries to use to defeat us mentally. Although we are not ignorant of the enemy’s devices, there is still always a resistance to think, say, and/or do what’s right by God’s standard.
When we experience loss, the situation is no different. Whether our love one is saved or not, we humans still experience hurt. In the case of our sweet babies the hurt is usually intensified because of all of the unknowns and the “never got to’s”.
“My unborn never got to play or cry; never got to crawl, walk, dance, or laugh. I heard a heart beat and that was it”. And the list of unfulfillable wishes could go on and on.
There are so many unknowns and unanswered questions.. right?
Yes, but when my mind is plagued with question, every “what if?”, every “why?” and I remember every tear that was shed, I can recall my favorite scripture.
This scripture is probably a popular one. Philippians 4:8-9 “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”
I have to repeat that over and over to myself until the peace comes.
Until I can see my baby sitting at the feet of Jesus, not knowing any of the world’s many troubles. He or she not ever having to experience the heartbreaks I’ve endured. I have the assurance that I will one day meet my baby girl or boy in the glories of God since I know I am saved through Jesus’ blood. My thoughts shift and it is simply super refreshing and even encouraging at this point. I pray that as you surrender you mind that it will be same for anyone who reads this and has experienced a loss of any kind.
Action Steps:
Examine your thought life. What is the quality of majority of your thoughts?
Use Philippians 4:8-9 to intentionally change what you are thinking about.
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