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

by Jennie Allen

God is real. He is not going anywhere, even if my mind jumps to all kinds of dark places. I can’t rely on my thoughts or feelings to hold my faith in place. God holds my faith in place.

After all, our fears arise from ingrained thoughts and entangled sins.

Because God is good and perfect, even

when life is not—and she is choosing to believe He is in control.

We always have exactly what we need, when we need it. Do we believe that?

And we claim the peace of God as our promise.

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!22

O we of little faith. We are seen and cared for, and there is nothing to fear because God has us.

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

In fact, I hardly could see the truth for what it was: I’d become angry, annoyed, and afraid.

Cynicism erodes our ability to see God rightly.

Cynicism at its root is a refusal to believe that God is in control and God is good. Cynicism is interpreting the world and God based on hurt you’ve experienced and the wounds that still lie gaping open. It forces you to look horizontally at people rather than vertically to God.

cynicism usually grows because we think we deserve better than we are getting. At the root of cynicism is crippling hurt. Cynicism says that nobody can be trusted, that we’re never, ever safe.

It’s everywhere if you look, if you only have eyes to see.

Goodness is meant not to merely make us feel good but to point us to God.

we’re weak, it’s actually a good thing, because Christ’s power is made more evident in us.12

Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

When we walk through the fires we inevitably find in life, will we emerge fortified or falling apart?

script entirely.

you’re only ten minutes away from a fresh start.

God can make that kind of breakthrough happen anywhere and with anyone.

I am he who blots out your transgressions. I will not remember your sins. Isaiah 43:25

To all who receive Me, who believe in My name, I give the right to become children of God. John 1:12

When Christ is our prize and heaven is our home, we get less anxious because we know our mission, our hope, our God cannot be taken from us.

In the dark, my mind used to spiral, afraid that there was no good place to land. Afraid that God was not real. Afraid that I was not safe. Afraid that I was not seen. Afraid of the days to come. Those fears, I would learn, were frauds. I was seen. I was safe. God was real.

I am at home. At home with God again. He chose me. He chose me and set me apart. I am not alone in the dark. I am known. I am chosen. I am safe. I am God’s, and He is mine.

I choose to talk to God instead of doubt Him. I choose to be grateful for all He has done. I choose to obey Him, no matter how I feel.