Have you ever felt overwhelmed by thoughts racing through your mind? The kind of thoughts that seem to shout louder the more you try to silence them? Are you anxious about the future? Are you worrying to much you can`t quite put into words Are your thoughts playing a mind game with you? Stop overthinking, rather step into God’s perfect peace and Joy. Saturate your mind with the word of God. Remind yourself of what the Word of God has said about anxiety or worrying. We all know and quote this verse quite often; Phi 4:4-6: Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. But what does it mean to be careful for nothing? Does that mean I should ignore the worries that I have, or denied them? Well, the word Be careful means anxiety, worry, over thinking. When the bible say to be careful for nothing, is referring to: Do not over think. Take no thoughts. Apostle Paul is telling us to stop overthinking. To the one who always worries, do not worry. To the one who over thinks, stop over thinking. Jesus also told us in Metthew 6:25, to take no thoughts, not to be worried. What we should do Instead is to rejoice, rejoice, I say again rejoice. For, the one that rejoices is the one that doesn`t overthink. Overthinking is one of the key thief of joy. The reality is, not many bad things happened. Rather we overthink it and elevate it. As believers, we have to be content, then contentment expresses itself as rejoicing. Apostle Paul says in ph 4:11 that; in Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. He is content and in his contentment is where his rejoicing is found. So, the overthinker can`t be content. For the way we think affects the way we rejoice. Wrong thinking produces wrong belief, wrong belief produces wrong speaking, wrong speaking produces the wrong results. So, believers, we have been called to a life to contentment, both in riches and having nothing. We should always rejoice, for our chief joy is Christ and not the things we possess. The opposite of overthinking is rejoicing. Rejoicing is an instruction from the Lord. For us to rejoice constantly, we have to take our mind away from worrying and placed it in someone else. So, where should our focus be? How should our thoughts be? We shouldn’t be the people who worry constantly about tomorrow. Instead, we walk in the assurance of Christ. Our focus shouldn`t be in worrying rather on a Person who is Jesus Christ. Isaiah: 26:3 says: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. How does God keep a man? by his heart, his mind. What does the heart or mind do, it stays on God. How does he heart stays on God, by trusting in God. The keeping powder of God can only be fully expresses when we stay on God, keeping our trust in him. God can only keep our hearts. The perfect peace is not something you have to look for in the place of prayer, rather we put our trust in him. Think of your mind like a compass. When it’s fixed on God, it points toward peace. But when distractions pull it away, it loses direction. Trust is what keeps it steady. When we put our trust in him, it now empowered, his ability to keep us in his perfect peace. I first have the first action to keep my trust in him, then the perfect peace would show itself. We refuse to keep our hearts on other things, like problem, worries, dispute, argument, unforgiveness. Rather we keep it on God. I will keep my heart on Christ. Be careful for nothing is not to keep your head empty, rather to fix your thoughts on the one who holds your perfect peace. What about Apostle Paul, writing from the prison and telling the people of Philipper to rejoice. When it make no sense for him to rejoiced, he is still found rejoicing . Rejoice, I say again rejoice. There is no reason you can`t walk in the joy of the lord.
