What do you feed your mind with? Are you guarding your mind? Until recently, I didn’t fully understand how deeply the content we feed our minds shapes our lives. What we watch, read, listen to, or meditate on plays a significant role in forming our belief systems. The Bible already teaches this: “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). Your life will always move in the direction of your most dominant thoughts.
Not long ago, I went through some short but lingering episodes of anxiety and panic attacks, and honestly, I almost lost it. I almost lost my faith. Coming from a science background, I had built so much trust in logic and scientific explanation that it felt impossible to believe that faith could heal anxiety or calm my mind. I love science. I love understanding how things work. But during those moments of anxiety, all the knowledge I had seemed powerless.
My mind became a battlefield; chaotic and noisy; filled with negative thoughts, fears, and imagined worst-case scenarios. Because I had read so much about symptoms of different illnesses, whenever I thought of them, the fear made them feel real. Sometimes my heart would race just because the thought crossed my mind. Other times, simply thinking about shortness of breath made me feel breathless. It was frightening, and I felt helpless.
Science gives tools, but it could not quiet my soul. The only thing that helped was faith; exactly what Scripture talks about: “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). I had to intentionally replace negative thoughts with God’s Word, make declarations of truth, and bring every fearful imagination under Christ’s authority (2 Corinthians 10:5). Slowly, the peace of God which “surpasses all understanding” (Philippians 4:7) began to guard my heart and mind.
I began to wonder: if this is truly how powerful the mind is, then Christians should be the most “supernatural” people on earth. God has already placed within us everything needed to overcome fear, stress, and anxiety. His Word gives us hope, strength, and reassurance. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). “God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).
Dear friends, with everything happening on social media, we must be intentional about what we feed our minds. If you constantly consume fear, negativity, comparison, and lies, those seeds will grow. But if you feed on the truth of God’s Word, it will produce peace, strength, stability, and joy.
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable; think about such things” (Philippians 4:8).
I don’t know what you feed your mind with, but please choose wisely. Feed your mind with the truth of God in the Bible. Feed your mind with the truth of God about your life. That is the only way you can walk in peace in this world. Otherwise, the enemy will feed you with lies, and those lies will shape your reality.
Guard your mind (Proverbs 4:23). For everything you do flows from it.
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