Starting up a conversation with the clerk who is watching the self check out area. My conversation most often goes to God and the Good things He is doing.
The clerk mentions she is learning thoughts that keep returning must be from God. Her example is about calling her daughter.
My response to her statement, “As long as it is not condemnation.”
Her question, “What is that?”
Her asking about condemnation shocked me! How can her life be so different from mine?
The world’s treatment filled me with condemnation.
The thoughts floating through my head my whole life until around 50 were condemnation. If I had a a chance to talk with someone I would kick myself for the next few days with these thoughts:
“I messed up again! I said too much! They won’t want to talk with me ever again. How could I do that again? Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!”
But God’s Way changed my thinking! I know I am covered and filled with His Righteousness.
Romans 8:1-2 There is therefore now No condemnation for those in Jesus Christ. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
In Romans 14:17 The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
How to #1: Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you my prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
How to #2: Ephesians 4:22-24 In reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new self which in the likeness of God has been created in the righteousness and holiness of the Truth.
The way to renew our mind is to meditate on the scriptures that we need to grow in.
I started confessing, “I am LOVED! I am the Beloved! I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! There is NO CONDEMNATION IN CHRIST JESUS!”
Hopefully no one reading this needs to transform your mind from condemnation but I will say that it works. When put in the situation of being bullied the words really do run off my back as water off a duck’s back.
All my life I had to have the tv or radio on to keep my mind busy! This keeps the bad thoughts from controlling my life and dragging my down into the pit! But God has washed me new and NOW I am able to sit in a quiet room and be at PEACE!
Very Good