Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them, but they start talking to you; they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc.
Somebody is talking . . . Your “self” is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this “self” to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen for a moment, I will speak to you.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, Zondervan.
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Give it some thought and give yourself a good talking to.
Gary