VERBAL SYMPTOMS OF OUR INNER DISEASE

                                                

                Have you ever wondered why some people cannot stop saying negative words for a second? Why you cannot stop being negative? I know you have read so many books about staying positive, having a positive mindset and how to overcome negativity; you have listened to countless number of motivational speakers about the consequences of negativity and negative utterances. You know vividly that as a man speaks, so he is and you have tried all your best to always prophesy good things about yourself but sometimes you are just carried away and it seems as if you been controlled by a greater power to say what you don’t like. Your tongue can not stop drooling negatives, you have slapped your mouth many times, you have learnt to always punish yourself whenever you say those words, you know them. Your swear jar as turned into a vault all in the name of disciplining your mouth; and now, it seems as if the ‘N’ in your DNA is ‘Negativity’.

Maybe yours is a little different, yours might be filthy, foolish and corrupt talks; because you want people to know that you have a good sense of humor, you go for crude jokes to make people laugh. And every time you say those words of yours, you feel happy for a moment that at least you achieved your aim but the next moment of respite, a strong feeling of wrongdoing comes upon you and your conscience tells you that you have not said well. You have acce0pted that saying rubbish and uttering vain words is your innate nature, so you are going to live with it. I recognize the fact we were all delivered of a woman, we were all born into this mess. Some people’s birthday was a drama and a tug of war; their parents were not positive, they were afraid that we were too stubborn, as they were pulling us from our mother’s vagina, we were diving back and so the mother would think or even say, “You this stubborn child, you better come out anyhow you want to, I don’t care if you break your leg, just stop making me feel this unbearable pain, I cannot kill myself because of a mere child. Some mothers would tell their son, “You better don’t be like your father, he is a failure, he goes out every morning and comes back empty-handed.”  Some parents lack discipline, an iota they don’t have, they are shameless to the extent that they have turned their sitting room into a wrestling arena, fighting and raining abusive words on themselves in the presence of their children; they have polluted our minds with negative gases.

Now that we have come into this vile world, the society could have dealt a death blow to the stronghold of negativity but rather, the death was averted and it dealt a bitter blow to our minds. When you roam the street, all you hear is people verbally confronting one another, when you take public transport, all you hear people discuss is the negative part of their lives, how the government has failed to meet their needs, how they have sought for employment in various companies and the disappointment they have encountered from various employers since there graduation from the university, how their father had neglected them and their mother and had eloped with another woman, how their lecturers molested and harassed them and had threatened them with failure except they comply to his terms, how their pastor had tricked them into laying with him in the name of divine deliverance, how their friends had abused and ridiculed them, telling them that their problems have no remedy in this world. We have listened to the society so much that the aura of negativity has penetrated through the fenestration of our mind into it nucleus.

The vibe of negativity and the notion that nothing good can come out of life has eaten deep into our minds like cancer, and like a virus, has spread abroad in our hearts. Our minds have been diseased by the many viruses of negativity and so what we say, what comes out of our mouth; the words of impossibility and failure that we keep telling ourselves, the words of discouragement and hopelessness that we share with people and the corrupt talks that we joke with, are the odors and symptoms of our diseased and decaying mind, like the fever from malaria, they come out of our mouths easily and uncontrolled.

Can you now see why you can’t stop saying negative words or feeling negative even after reading the whole library of positivity, after listening to various messages from vibrant speakers? A malignant tumor will not go away by mere chemo; it has to be surgically removed. Most books and speakers will teach you how to counteract and break negative feedback loop, how to shift focus from negatives (by leaving the area, going for a walk, talking to a friend, seeing a movie and so on), how to reframe and reinterpret the negative thought into a positive one by always looking at the positive aspect of things alone, how to develop the new habit of affirming positive words like ‘I CAN’, ‘I WILL’, ‘I AM’, ‘I SHALL’, every morning and before you go to bed. If a logger cuts a tree at it trunk, will it not grow again? Except it be rooted out, it may take a very long time but it will surely grow again. You cannot use a placebo and expect that your sickness will go away, you cannot face the symptoms and wish that thee disease will disappear; combat the disease and it symptoms will be lost.

There is this aspect that people don’t want to talk about, maybe because they don’t want to be too religious or they just want to hide their belief so that people especially the victims of negativity would give attention to their words. Can a teacher say that he will not teach his students ‘Evolution’ because he does not believe in it? Or will he say because only God is almighty, he will not teach the ‘Almighty Formula?’ I pity such students, because their teacher is only preparing them for failure. Likewise, any book or speaker that does not teach the comprehensive idea of the mind, such message does not worth accepting let alone applying.  Please, don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t say that scientific and psychological approaches are to be neglected, never! They are very good and result-yielding, they have been tested over time and they have been found trustworthy but as much as they are good, they shouldn’t come first. When all is said and done, the God principle can never be overruled, it is first and ultimate. One of my lecturers would always say, “Life is spiritual.” You might want to run away from this, but it is the basic truth, in fact, the utmost. We have experienced negativity for so long, from generation to generation, since childhood and it has eaten deep into us. We come across negative people and situations every day and as long as we are still on this planet, it will remain. This negative goliath cannot be overcome by mere human effort, it is inhumane and it has to be addressed as such. The ancient curse will not go out painlessly; the tough old misery within will not lie down and die in obedience to our command. It must be torn out of our heart like a plant from the soil; it must be extracted in agony and blood like a tooth from the jaw.

This is my conclusion; all you need is a renewal of your diseased mind; “And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God, Romans 12:2. Your mind can be cured from it disease of negativity by renewing it; it is a continuous process. Transformation will make renewal easier, your heart must first be transformed from it old adamic nature into the mind of the Son of God; “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,” Philippians 2:5. You have to accept Him (Jesus) into your heart, tell Him that are not contented with your adamic mind, tell Him to come and be your Lord; confess your sins. By confess your sins, you are telling God how much damage the disease has caused your mind and “He is just and faithful to forgive you your sin and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness (damages),” 1 John 1:8-9. Allow Him into your heart and He will use his precious blood to wash all the morbid and inflamed tissues of your diseased and decaying mind. He will make that disease go away; you will just find out that those verbal symptoms (negative and corrupt words) that you often say will become things of the past; for you will say them no more.

Renewal is paramount as long as we sojourn in this vain and corrupt world but if you abide in Him and He in you by always studying and meditating on the word of God, by always being in the gathering of encouraging brethren, by constant koinonia, “the peace of God that surpasses all understanding shall keep your heart and mind through Christ Jesus,” Philip.4:7.