I Will Be Master of My Mind

[Thompson, Darryl]

I Will Be Master of My Mind 

     Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for
the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus
Christ. 1 Peter 1:13  

     We have each of us an individual work to do, to gird up the loins
of our minds, to be sober, to watch unto prayer. The mind must be firmly
controlled to dwell upon subjects that will strengthen the moral powers.
. . . The thoughts must be pure, the meditations of the heart must be
clean, if the words of the mouth are to be words acceptable to Heaven
and helpful to your associates.  

     The mind should be guarded carefully. Nothing should be allowed to
enter that will harm or destroy its healthy vigor. But to prevent this,
it should be preoccupied with good seed, which, springing to life, will
bring forth fruit-bearing branches. . . . A field left uncultivated
speedily produces a rank growth of thistles and tangled vines, which
exhaust the soil and are worthless to the owner. The ground is full of
seeds blown and carried by the wind from every quarter; and if it is
left uncultivated, they spring up to life spontaneously, choking every
precious fruit-bearing plant that is struggling for existence. If the
field were tilled and sown to grain, these valueless weeds would be
extinguished, and could not flourish.  

     The youth who finds joy and happiness in reading the Word of God
and in the hour of prayer is constantly refreshed by drafts from the
Fountain of life. He will attain a height of moral excellence and a
breadth of thought of which others cannot conceive. Communion with God
encourages good thoughts, noble aspirations, clear perceptions of truth,
and lofty purposes of action. Those who thus connect their souls with
God are acknowledged by Him as His sons and daughters. They are
constantly reaching higher and still higher, obtaining clear views of
God and of eternity, until the Lord makes them channels of light and
wisdom to the world. 

>From My Life Today - Page 83