Our minds is a center where everything we reason and think circulates there and whatever we do or say out from our mouths comes from our minds. We should be careful with the kind of thoughts we allowed into our minds, especially those bad and evil thoughts.
A single bad thought can make you regret so much in life of the outcome or consequences of your action in life.
This is a true story that happened two days ago in our community Ende Hills, of Akwanga local government, Nasarawa State Nigeria. A young man was caught at the farm trying to steal someone's farm produces, got stealing someone's yam in the farm. According to an eye witness, these woman said they were going to the farm in the evening in search of dried firewoods, and noticed someone is digging yam , holding a big bag and they thought at first he was the owner of the farm.
So they decided to go and greet him while working in the farm so that they too can get some free yam from the man for themselves .They said as they were walking towards the farm , they noticed the man while working in the farm was trying to hide himself from them, they were like wondering why would the man hide himself when he saw them coming towards his farm direction. Yet they kept on walking towards him and as they were coming closer the man came out from the farm and started running in the buss leaving the yam he had harvested already and everything he came to the farm with.
When they women saw the man running they knew it a thief, so they shout loud and kept shouting thief, thief, thief and men that were also working in their farms left their work when they heard the women shouting thief! thief!! thief!! and pursue the man, caught him and béat him up that evening. They noticed it was someone they all knew from the community and took him from the farm to the community leaders and explained everything that happened.
When the leaders asked him why he did that? He said he was just looking for ways to have his bill sort out and a thought came to him to go and steal that particular person's yam in the farm and sell it since he doesn't have any means to sort out money for his bills. That's to say the man never planned to steal the yam untill the thought came to him and he was unable to resist such a bad thought. He thinks towards as the thought came to him, analyze how to carry out the job and he went as he concluded in his mind.
But now see the consequences of his action, he couldn't control and guard his thoughts properly and now it has landed him in a serious problem. Let's learn from this man mistake and hope never to repeat such mistake in our lives. We can't stop the kinds of thoughts that will come to your minds, but we can control the thoughts that go out from our minds. We should be able to find out what that thought is bringing and suggesting in our hearts and minds, and know whether is good or bad. Any negative thoughts in our minds we should be able to let go of it immediately. Think very well and think very deep before taking and making any decisions you will not regret it later in life.