DR. ANDREW BLACKWOOD - "Future Telling" | Mental Health Moment
Mental Health Moments • 1m 37s
I am going to fail, I’m gonna fail… my sister would be so worried after an exam or submitting an assignment, only to ecstatically find, “Oh my God, I got an A!”
This happened for years!!!! Regardless of how many times things worked out, she worried that they wouldn’t.
Do you ever feel certain that things are not going to work out? Well, if you’re using words like, “I know… it’s going to…. Why would it work it, things don’t work out the way I want them to”, you are engaging in a thought pattern called Future-telling. You guessed it, it’s also one of the Big 5
We know we can’t predict the future, but that doesn’t change our tendency to make predictions about it.
The best thing to do, is trust in the Lord with all of your heart, and lean not to your own understandings, the way that you think things will go. If you’re going to trust anything to be sure in the future, believe that all things, even the situation you’re in right now, God will work that out for your good. He’s God, He loves you and He is good!
Andrew Blackwood can be reached on Facebook here @coachdrewcan
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