Our MINDSET will determine how we love ourselves and how we love others. A good point to remember indeed. Look at that word again? How is your mind set? What are the thoughts that you allow to grow and harvest in your Eden (hope you caught that). 😉
We as both men and women alike, must regularly check our mindsets by evaluating how well we listen to others. How well do we communicate? How do we talk to people, our tone and so forth. What kind of energy are we putting out? Are we wearing our emotions on our sleeves? Do we even care about how we present ourselves in this world, how we show up in life? Do we think more highly of ourselves than we ought to? Because there's a vast difference between confidence and cockiness.
Do we dwell on the past oppose to creating a better version of ourselves in the present and for the future. Are we a broken record, rehearsing our old glory days over and over and over again? We’re stuck right there in the past because we’ve chosen to let our failures define us. Can we even handle people close to us telling us the truth about ourselves? Are we striving to become more like Christ? Pressing toward the high calling which is found in our relationship with Him? Do we use our situations to become better or bitter?
Our mouths and moves tell on us every single time. As a man or woman thinks in their heart is what they will announce with their mouths and portray in their energy and their actions. We can only go so long pretending. Who we are eventually shows up as sweet pineapples 🍍 , mild limes 🍋🟩 , sour lemons 🍋 , or hot peppers 🌶️.
Do you practice metacognition - thinking about your thinking? If not take some time and do that for yourself every single day. And be sure to invite the Holy Spirit in on that conversation with yourself because our good friend the ego will justify our carnality every single time. Let’s make doing a “checkup from the neck up” a daily practice - evaluating our thoughts, feelings, and choices, and making any necessary adjustments to align with God’s truth so that we can show up as better people for one another as Christ did and has called us to do.
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. John 13:34
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