This is Max Locato. Monitor your default thoughts. Most of us are unaware of the inner dialogue.

We carry on with ourselves each day. Appraisals, criticisms, assumptions. They are knee-jerk reactions.

I'm so stupid. I'll never get this under control. When self-criticism or worry plays like a tape in your head, there's always a

reason. Someone trained you to think this way. They are the result of injury after injury,

influence after influence, regret after regret, days, years, decades of immobilizing notions

until a person cannot escape.

Does the voice in your head speak with proper authority?

Odds are good that many of your thoughts emerge from an unqualified origin.

I hope you come to view each thought through the lens of God's word.

He and he alone has authority to tell you how to think.