Thinking Incorrectly About Things (TMF:2181)

Monday, September 18, 2023
Peace to Live By: Thinking Incorrectly About Things (TMF:2181) - Daniel Litton
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       It certainly is true that sometimes people will condemn us when we really haven’t done anything wrong. The lower a person is on the levels of consciousness the more they will be focused on themselves. In that case, if we do something like, say we decide to move to a different state, there may be a group of people that are upset with our decision. But that’s because they are focused only on themselves, and how the decision affects them, and not how it is good for the person actually moving. Sometimes our minds can play tricks on us and try to get us to think that God is mad at us when he really isn’t. This ‘personalization’ or ‘mind reading’ from David Burn’s Cognitive Distortions can really mess with our heads sometimes. I think that it must be the case that God is mad at me because I feel guilty. But the presence of guilt doesn’t always mean that we have done something wrong. It may be that we just ‘think’ we have done something wrong and really haven’t. When we assume we know what God is thinking that can get us into trouble with ourselves.