Attitude is everything. You are not always in control of what happens to you, but you are always in control of how you respond. Your attitude is the only thing you get to control 100% of the time. The Bible uses the word mind to describe your attitude more often than it uses the actual word attitude. However, what you think about leads to actions and those actions lead to habits. Your habits develop your character and your character develops your future. It all starts with your attitude and your mind. (This is an excerpt from the YouVersion bible reading plan: Attitude)
Always be POSITIVE no matter how drown you maybe or how broken and tired you are coz at the end of time when the beep sounds it is over, IT is ALWAYS good to know that YOU have done and given your very best to survive a lifetime. Always and always remember especially in times of hardships to always know that GOD never abandons HIS children. And always remember to give thanks and Praise Him in times of good tidings yet even in trying moments. Don't be stupid like many others that only knows God when they are hurts the most and when all is fine they tend to forget HIM. As the verse says: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. Therefore, no reserves. God is the very VIP in our lives and deserves well enough of our very first class attentions and showmanship of gratitudes. And that's been said, He commands us to LOVE our neighbours as we love ourself.
XI. L. FAITH IN CHRIST THE SAVIOR: POWER (H.E.)---Discerning spirits, therefore, turn to goodness positively conceived. “Thou shall not” becomes “Thou shalt”; duty consists of rules to be kept, precepts to be observed, principles to be applied, and we go out to do good deeds to men. But whoever seriously tried to do deeds really good, faces a need of moral elevation, as much beyond the outward act of good as that surpasses the observance of prohibitions.
ReplyDeleteGood deeds are not a matter of will alone, but of spiritual quality. Let the wind blow to fan the faces of the sick, but if it discovers that it is laden with disease, what shall it do? To blow this way or that may be within volition’s power, but not to cleanse oneself. The task of character reaches inward, beyond the things we do or refrain from doing to the man we are. Goodness is something more than girding up the loins, blowing upon the hands, and setting to the work of being dutiful. It springs from the spirit’s depth; it is tinctured with the spirit’s quality; and deeds are never really better than the soul whose utterances they are.
From “Thou shall not do” to “Thou shalt do” and from “Thou shalt do” to “Thou shalt be,” man’s flying goal of goodness moves. And this ideal in Christ has been incarnate, visible, imperative. He was right in the inner quality and flavor of his life; and to be like him involves a pure and powerful personality. Whoever set that task ahead knows that he cannot strut proudly into it. Like Alice entering Wonderland he must grow very small before he can grow large. The Christ who has power to give has revealed the need of it.
Not only by the intensifying of the ideal, but by its extension, has Christ created thirst for divine help. In youth the problem of character concerns personal habits. Our untamed strength must be broken to the harness, and the snaffle bit be used upon our wayward powers. We justly fear our sins and in their triumph we see the wreck of individual prospects and the ruin of our families’ hopes.