Learning to Hear God’s Thoughts Over Mine

Do you ever have terrible, shocking thoughts and wonder where they even come from?

The enemy messes with us all. He sneaks lies, doom, and gloom into our thoughts. Yesterday, I had a tough day. Every thought seemed to be sad, and I got sucked into the despair. It accompanied me all day. I couldn’t seem to break free from the sadness. 

While it is important to feel our emotions, it is also essential to redirect after a while. But instead of redirecting, I welcomed each sad memory and thought. And the enemy gave me even more to think about. 

Has this ever happened to you?

One minute you’re fine, and the next you start thinking about every sad thing that’s ever happened to you. In that mindset, the more I think, the more miserable I become. 

What I should have done was break the negative cycle. I could have prayed and told God how I was feeling, asking Him to help me overcome it. I could have worked out, called someone, or listened to an audiobook while I cleaned my house. 

But I didn’t. I wallowed in the misery. 

I feel the lingering effects of it all today. My neck and shoulders are hurting from carrying all the things God didn’t intend for me to carry. 

Our thoughts can seem innocent, normal even, but they can be a true battleground. If we go down a negative thought spiral and spend the day wallowing in the pain, we will cause ourselves even more hurt. 

God knows what we are going through. Honestly, He knows more about it all than we do. When we sit with Him and invite Him into the conversation, it will change. God can help us see things with a Godly perspective. He can help us process things in a way we could never have considered before. 

This morning, He showed me that I can carry it all and let it bring me down, or I can let go and allow God to help me. 

Did you know that sometimes we reject His comfort? We chose to stay in the painful places because we feel that we are supposed to suffer. It’s supposed to be hard, so we make it so. 

But God can help us with all things. He can even turn our heartaches into blessings. We have to trust Him to be our God. 

If we continuously question God and His plan, we can’t trust Him. Genuine trust in Him is accepting His will. Knowing in the depths of our souls that God’s way is the best- even if we can’t see the evidence of it right now. 

It was supposed to happen the way that it did. Why? Because it did. 

To think things should have been different from what they are is to question God. And when I start questioning God, doubt creeps in, and my faith in Him weakens. 

However, when I can be honest with God and tell Him that I don’t understand things, and I need His thoughts to replace mine, I invite God in. When I tell Him I’m in pain and I need His comfort and strength, I invite Him in. 

Inviting God into my struggles is so much better than questioning Him. Inviting God lets Him know I’m struggling with my circumstances and I need His help. Questioning God puts a wedge between us, letting Him know that I think He made a mistake. 

Sweet friends, I don’t want anything to come between God and me. I want to be so close to Him that I can hear His thoughts and not my own. 

Isaiah 55:8-9 KJV

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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