What do you do when an unGodly thought pops into your head? ( It happens to all of us.)  We can't keep them from coming, but how we deal with those thoughts makes all the difference.  In The Confident Woman, Anabel Gillham suggests these "five R's" for handling sinful thoughts prudently:

1.  RECOGNIZE the thought as sin.  Recognize it as defamatory, as selfish, condemning, attacking your character, accusing or confusing you.  Recognize it as what it is:  the Deceivers tool, a lie, a destructive thought.

2.  REFUSE to accept the thought as yours, and don't dwell on it.  You know where it's coming from, the enemy of God.

3.  RECKON yourself dead to the power of sin ( Romans 6:7; Colossians 3:5).  Just as though you were a dead person, do not respond to the power of sin's suggestion.

4.  REST in knowing that you are in Christ and He is in you.  And when you fail, when you fall, don't spend the rest of the day receiving thoughts about how you hate yourself, allowing the power of sin to do instant replays, going over and over what you should have done but didn't do.

5.  REMIND yourself of who you are in Christ, dust off, confess that you listened to the Deceiver and actually believed his lies.  Tell God you're sorry, learn from your mistake, realize how you were deceived, and go on about life........walking with the poise and confidence of a woman who knows she is deeply loved, totally forgiven, and completely able to live life.  All because of Christ Jesus.

" You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, whose thoughts are fixed on you!  Isaiah 26:3, NLT version

(from book, Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out, Joanna Weaver)

What does God think about you?

I was just reading Psalm 139 in a modern written Bible called The Message.  Listen to some of this stuff written in the Bible:   God, I'm an open book to you, even from a distance you know what I'm thinking.  You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.  Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?  to be out of your sight?  I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark!" Oh, yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mothers womb.  I thank you, High God......you're breathtaking!  Body and soul, I am marvelously made!  You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.  Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd lived one day!

What an amazing love God has for us : ))  Imagine that God even sees us in the dark!