Whoever Guards His Tongue Keeps His Soul From Trouble

My dream this morning, you know the little one you have after you wake up and then doze back off to sleep for a little bit longer.....

So there I am, I'm standing at what looks like a ticket counter and they give me the ugliest 3D glasses I have ever seen. I look down and there's a cute little toddler that runs behind me, and a young boy comes along and pushes her. Nobody seems to notice, nobody cares. So I tell him in front of his mom: her mom is right there, you need to apologize. So he does. Then in a flash I'm looking in a mirror, combing my hair. My hair was a golden brown, like when I was younger. And all of a sudden I see a battery compartment on my head. I kinda freak out, and I open it and I see batteries in there (at least they were duracell). And I think: I am a doll? Dolls can't breathe! And all at once I feel myself both shrinking and stopping breathing. And then I woke up.

I had to think of what the significance of this doll dream was. Dolls have no feelings, they look pretty, and they are pre-programmed to only say certain phrases, certain words, over and over again. No new thoughts happening there.

The thought of someone being hurt and no one being there to defend them: not only do I care when nobody cares about helpless people, but at the right time (too tired, sick, not enough time with God) thoughts like that happen about me and if I'm not careful, it turns into self-pity. I've grown alot in that area but still have found that if I dwell on that self-pity, hopelessness and regret and depression try to creep in.

And the enemy knows that if he can get us to speak those negative thoughts out, he is going to have a hand in shaping our day. And if he can get a hand in on one day, he will want another and another, til he consumes us.

Proverbs 21:23 NKJV
Whoever guards his mouth and tongue Keeps his soul from troubles.

If we will guard ourselves from speaking these negative thoughts, and instead, remember the good God has done and thank Him and Praise Him for it, thank Him and Praise Him for the Word He has spoken to us, faith will come, and that is what will shape our day, and another, and another, til He consumes us.

Selah~~