14Don’t do as the wicked do, and don’t follow the path of evildoers. 15Don’t even think about it; don’t go that way. Turn away and keep moving. Proverbs 4:14-15 (NLT)
If you’re trying to change the course of your life by changing your actions or behavior you’re having it backwards. That’s frustrating and it won’t work out. It’s like stopping a tree from growing by cutting off the branches. New ones will grow back up again. You have to pull up the tree from the roots.
What you think, you follow, you do. Therefore, to change what you do, first change what you think. Before you do something, you first think about it, you follow it with intention, and then you end up doing it. That’s the pattern of behavior. Our theme Scripture has commanded us saying “don’t do what the wicked do, don’t follow it, don’t even think about” If this was a tree, the doing is the fruit, the following are the branches and the thinking are the roots. To stop the fruit, you deal with the roots.
In order to stop doing what the wicked do, stop thinking what the wicked think. Start thinking what God thinks because He is righteous and does righteousness. You can download God’s righteous thinking from His Word which is known as the Word of Righteousness – Hebrews 5:13 (NKJV) Let God’s Word shape your thinking and it will shape your actions and behavior.