Jude was terrified with the thought of resumption for the new academic session due to his last performance at the last exams.
Negative thoughts lingered on his mind that he could never pass any arithmetic subject. He resumed with this negative thought. Meanwhile, other pupil in his class easily understood the examples explained by their teacher while Jude kept struggling to catch up with the explanations.
Is not as if Jude was not intelligent but before resumption, he has filled his heart with the fear of failure, he find it difficult to focus which led him to lag behind even when his mates were catching up with their studies.
Thought is everything.“As a man thinket in his heart, so he is”
Don’t allow negative thoughts to dominate your mind to the extent of driving away your good plans and vision. According to the story above, Jude allow negative thought about his previous term experience to dominate his thought and he miss the success of the present.
Beloved, you may have grown up hearing a lot of negative words about yourself: words like, “you will never amount to anything, or you will never be able to do this and that”. These words have power to bring down your ability to succeed if you give attention to these words long enough.
Build your life and future with positive thinking gotten from God’s word, fix your thoughts on the truth.
It is normal to have ugly past but you should not allow it to affect your present life because there is no success by dwelling on past failures.
Guide your heart with all diligence and never allow anything that will take your mind away from your vision. You have a choice to what dominate your heart.
You can either allow those negative thoughts to dominate your heart and bring you down or you allow those positive thoughts to dominate your heart and lift you up.
You are not what you use to be, you can start today and end it well because your future starts now.
You can always change today to suit the future but you can never change yesterday to suit today, let the past failure remain past and let the future be secure by shape it right with your thought.
”Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayers and supplications with thanksgiving, make your request known unto God”
Philippians 4:8