How's Your Self Talk?
You know, what are you saying to yourself? There's always
something going on in there. Do you make positive statements
about yourself to yourself or are you beating yourself up with
your own words?
"Know thyself" is a statement that comes to mind. Know what it's
going to take to get and keep you moving onward and upward.
You know one of the most telling things about Jesus was that he
knew he had to keep himself motivated and ready at any instant
to do miracles. He knew that his 'coach' might call on him at
any given moment to pull the team out of the fire. He knew that
he couldn't afford not to be up and ready mentally to take on
and over come whatever challenge was laid out before him.
One of the ways he did this was by hearing himself talk
positively about himself. Sometimes with all that goes on your
own voice may be the only "friendly" voice you hear. This being
the case you'd better make sure it's uplifting and not helping
the other voices tear you down.
Never in a bragging way of course, but do you realize that in
all of the statements Jesus made about himself he never once
spoke in negative terms. Not once. He never even one time hinted
that he might be out matched. Jesus