Do you speak your mind? Does that get you into trouble? Have you attempted to control what you say? What is in your heart? Have you spent time meditating? What do you meditate on? What occupies your thoughts, other than work, most of the day?
We all know people who speak whatever comes to their mind. Often, they blurt something out before thinking about it. They may say hurtful things without first considering their impact. Whether they want to admit it or not, they don’t have a good foundation within their heart.
How do we correct our impulse to speak whatever comes to our mind? It starts within our heart. It starts with what we are feeding our minds. We can meditate on all the wrong in the world and the wrong being done to us. Or we can meditate on the good in the world and good God is providing for us.
Just as we have heard that we are what we eat, we are what we are feeding our hearts and minds. If we are feasting on revenge, hatred, and compulsion, we will act and speak the same. But if we are feeding our hearts and minds God’s Word, we will act and speak as he wants us to.
As the Psalmist states, we are to desire that what we speak and meditate on is acceptable to God. Focus on his blessings. Meditate on his instruction. Digest God’s Word and apply it to what we say and what we ponder throughout the day. By changing our focus, we can change our speech and behavior.
I pray we all seek a positive change in our speech and behavior. I pray we meditate on God’s Word. I pray each one of us will seek to make our thoughts, speech, and actions acceptable to God. Seek positive change. Meditate on God’s Word. Speak and act acceptably. Focus on God.
Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to you,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Marty Pressey 