Thoughts are Like Birds

Twenty years ago a flock of egrets infested a tree in my parents house and I came from school and wanted to help them get rid of the birds and I started throwing stones at them and did that for about thirty minutes. Then my mother came and started laughing at me and told me my cause was helpless because the birds would only fly away and come back. She told me that if we ensure that there is nothing for them to eat in our compound they would go. That event taught me a lot about thoughts. Evil thoughts will come to infest your mind and you cannot defeat them with will power. What you can do is to ensure that there is nothing in your physical and mental life that those thoughts can feed on. If you feed those thoughts they will stay. If you starve them they will go. So search your heart and your surroundings and make sure that you are surrounded with things that starve and not feed those thoughts.  “I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved”-Psalm 16:8.