THE MIND AND HOW IT IS AFFECTED BY PICTURES AND WORDS. PART 1

     Before I go ahead with this article, I will like to ask this question; Why do we read articles? I think I found out a very good answer to that. I found out early in life that just one discovery could be what could be keeping you from achieving great feats or could be what is giving you an edge over your peers.

     I know of a boy who went through his Junior Secondary education and the beginning of his Senior Secondary education being an average student. He was a copy cat who believed he needed to cheat before he could pass any test or examination. It even got to a point that he felt his brain was being controlled by evil forces; He even had to go to a pastor to pray for him. The boy never knew that he just needed to discover what he could do all by himself.
     It was until he took a decision to discover his abilities that he found out that it was just his mindset; immediately his journey to greater exploits began. Now, he writes exams without cheating and he comes out tops. Glory to God.
     How do you see yourself? What information are you listening to concerning yourself? What images are you feeding your mind with concerning your future? The answer to those questions forms your attitude to life, your perception of events and how you relate to others.
     Word creates pictures which the mind processes. Imagine this scenario; A man who drinks decides to stop drinking and stay away from whatever environment that triggers him to drink. One day he decides to just go there to see his friends. One thing is certain that some discussions there would lead him to drink again. Likewise one who decides to stop watching filthy movies, who then hears people around saying some words related to some of the filthy movies he had watched; there is a tendency that some pictures are being formed in his mind based on the words that he had heard.
     Be careful what you hear, they form your thinking. From God's word, we see this principle at work in Second Corinthians 3:18," And all of us as with unveiled face (because we) continued to behold (in the word of God) as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are CONSTANTLY BEING TRANSFIGURED into his (very own) image in ever increasing splendor (and) from one degree of glory to another; (for this comes) from the Lord (who is) the Spirit. Here the we see the principle of how pictures from words could radically change our perception in Life. Someone does not just wake up one day to become a thief, he went through a process. You don't go to steal without a picture of what your aim is. Your picture of the benefits moves you to do it.
     Paul had a powerful mentality that made him stand out.........................................  To be continued