When God created our world, He said all that He created was good. When He created humans, He did so in His image and said we were very good.
Because we were made in God’s image, our God-wired default is love. But we have a choice—live in love or fear.
2 Timothy 1:7 says, “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
The choice is ours.
We can’t always control the events and circumstances of life, but we can always control how we think and react.
Scientists can now map how our brains change moment by moment, developing pathways that either improve or hinder our future selves. Thinking activates genes and affects how chemicals, proteins, and the wiring of our brains change and function.
Positive/Biblical thoughts help us live healthy, godly lives while negative/unbiblical thoughts create stress and lead to the majority of our mental, physical, and behavioral health problems. Some estimates range from 75 to 90 percent of our illnesses come from our thought life.
So choose carefully, think positively, and react godly because your mind controls your body, not the other way around.
And because you were designed to live in power, love, and a sound mind, not in fear.
