Have you had something traumatic happen to you – something that deeply damaged your usual cheery disposition? What follows is the best advice I could give you.

At 3 years of age, children start to experience their “inner voice” as they learn to integrate thought with language. However, when we are baptized into Christ, we start the process of exchanging our inner thoughts for His thoughts.

Psalm 139:17-18 teach us that God was always on David’s mind. “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you” (ESV). Can we say the same?

Additionally, Paul the Apostle instructed the church at Colossae to “set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth” (Col.3:2 ESV).

When we exchange the negative inner script for the awesome mind of God, we will see His will being done, on earth as it is in heaven and our lives overflowing with blessings too numerous to contemplate.

As it is, however, many Christians walk around bitterly fixated on deep hurts of their past or extremely anxious about a presumed treacherous future.

Friend, might I suggest that you stop being “conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2 ESV).