Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

by Jennie Allen

No human is ever meant to be the person who fills our souls or holds in place our worth.

To put it plainly: all hell is against us meeting with Jesus.

Ask until asking no longer makes you cringe.

In such brave endeavors, we may scare off the wrong people sooner but we’ll bring in the right people more quickly too.

“97 percent of what you worry over is not much more than a fearful mind punishing you with exaggerations and misperceptions.”7

You and I may have many gifts and talents, but being God is not one of them.

Delight in God and His goodness tears down our walls and allows hope, trust, and worship to flood in.

achievement is still the most popular drug of our generation.

I absolutely agree that God’s plans are benevolent and good. But perhaps I believe that only in the past tense.

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.1

We need to become excellent at being self-forgetful. But it’s difficult to forget big things, especially ourselves.

Far better to focus on what will pull us forward than try to focus on what won’t push us back.

Only God can take the thing we want to hide and build the greatest story we will ever tell.