Writing is a form of confession and what you take time to write is more meaningful than ideas entertained in casual discussion or the privacy of your thoughts. Anything written can be judged when read and with subsequent readings we gain further conviction in favor, or opposition to what has been recorded.
Effective discipleship includes writing or “journaling” things that matter most. Prayer requests, prayer concerns, thoughts while praying, words the Lord speaks to our hearts throughout the day, and occasions of praise or great joy as well as those of sadness, loss or defeat – these belong in a journal to be tested, believed and integrated into our beliefs or rejected as unworthy for the life of a disciple.
Thoughts come and go, forming patterns of thought; and when thoughts are written, surprising, even extreme, patterns emerge to develop context for who we are—either with strengths and confidence toward God or negatively, with insecurity and fear. Once exposed, our thoughts affirm our biblical admonition with God, or defy it.
Take every thought captive. Write the vision and make it plain.
Amen.
2 Corinthians 10:5-6 |1 Thessalonians 5:21 | 1 Timothy 5:13 | Hebrews 10:23
Sister Dottie Yager
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