God places heavy emphasis on our thinking, commanding us to \u201cLove the Lord your God\u2026with all your mind\u201d (Luke 10:27) and to ponder only what is commendable (Phil 4:8).\u00a0 So, it\u2019s especially distressing when wicked intrusive thoughts just pop into your head. What can you do when thoughts intrude?<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t overreact <\/p>\n
Often when a counselee brings up intrusive thoughts, they feel full of shame.\u00a0 They are embarrassed to say out loud what was hidden internally, because the thoughts had such wicked content like violating others, hurting a child or animal, or causing destruction. \u00a0Wicked intrusive thoughts are sometimes startling because they seem so random and unexpected. Actually, we have lots of intrusive thoughts all day long. Most are just benign thoughts that pull our attention away from one thing to another. Only the ones that we evaluate as a certain level of wicked really startle us, and in many cases cause us to have an initial knee-jerk reaction of shame.\u00a0 \u00a0We are not automatically sinning just because a wicked thought comes into our mind.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t underreact <\/p>\n
However, just because intrusive thoughts are not automatically sinful doesn\u2019t mean we should ignore them.\u00a0 We can\u2019t stop a thought from popping into our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
God places heavy emphasis on our thinking, commanding us to \u201cLove the Lord your God\u2026with all your mind\u201d (Luke 10:27) and to ponder only what is commendable (Phil 4:8).\u00a0 So, it\u2019s especially distressing when wicked intrusive thoughts just pop into your head. What can you do when thoughts intrude? Don\u2019t overreact Often when a counselee… read more
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