Age brings change, no doubt, but it is said that we automatically accept
that certain things will happen when we grow older, that we accept them
as a given. Much of it is all in the minds, say psychologists. Some say
we get what we expect. Others insist that we can't stop the hands of the
clock nor advancing time, or its effects on our bodies and minds.
Well, I believe both. I believe that if we replace, with positive words, the words about what we feel is unavoidably negative, it can effect change. Though it won't change the inevitable, it can counteract it for a time and make life more hopeful and enjoyable.
I do believe that because of fear, resignation and lack of vision, we accept situations, conditions, disabilities and sicknesses that we might not have had to suffer. Essentially, we can also create them with our consistently hopeless thoughts and words. When they pertain to health, doctors call them psychosomatic illnesses. When they pertain to situations in our lives, I call them creating what we repetitively fear. These are facts to seriously consider.
It is better to work on building our positive,
God-inspired attitudes everyday and to turn our thinking and speaking habits to what the Word of God declares. Our thoughts and words will then line
up to produce a hopeful, healthy future for our remaining time here on earth.
It's not easy for our depressing ways of thinking and speaking to change, but it is possible.
Jesus said,
In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. John 16:33
If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. Mark 9:23
In Proverbs we are told,
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. Proverbs 18:21
And in Matthew,
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. Matthew 15:18