What is in Your Thought Closet That's Killing You?

Ask any woman and she will tell you cleaning out her clothes closet is one of her least desirable jobs. There are clothes in there that used to fit or be in style, but because they are hers, she won't give them away. She's used to them, or there are memories attached to them, or they may fit or be in style at some future date.

It's the same in our thought closet. Some of those thoughts were put there by someone else and we have carried them around for so long they are a familiar part of us, like an arm or leg. We know they're not appropriate for this time, or even that they're dangerous, yet we cannot let them go - or maybe we don't know how to let go of them.

Because I was physically, emotionally, and verbally abused during my formative years, it has been easier to accept those thoughts as truth. I have caught myself many times repeating them to myself. That is very dangerous because the person we believe the most when we hear them speaking those destructive words is ourselves!

So let's look at how to clean out our "thought closet":

- Recognize the lies when you hear them. Here's where knowing who you are in God's eyes, and what He says about you in His Word becomes crucial. Some of these lies may be:

You are defective; You're so stupid; You've always been hard to love; If anyone really gets to know you, they won't love you anymore; You ain't worth a tinker's damn.

The list goes on, and just reading them makes you see the absurdity of them, yet when you're alone, there are times when you actually believe them. Now how do you know they are lies? Just go to Ephesians 2 and read how you are the "workmanship of God", and as I used to tell my kids, "God don't make no junk!"