ATTITUDE IS EVEYTHING
Romans 12:1-3
Attitude is a frame of mind affecting one’s thoughts and behavior. Next to knowing Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, nothing is more important than having a good positive attitude. Your attitude can make or break you; heal or hurt you; make you friends or make you enemies; make you happy or make you miserable; make you a success or make you a failure.
There are three important facts about attitude:
- It reveals who you are (the real you). Our attitude comes out of the core of our being. Our attitude represents our disposition, our outlook, our very character.
- It determines the success and failure of every relationship in our life. Our attitude affects every relationship in our life. Be it family, friends, office, church, etc. And sometimes relationships will never get started in the first place; because many times your attitude has built up walls, making it difficult for people to be around you.
- Our attitude is always our choice: We have the power to decide how we will respond to what happens to us. To this end, we can choose joy, choose hope, choose to be positive and to forgive.
For you to blame others for the results of your bad attitudes or on a difficult circumstance is simply passing the buck. A way to destroy a negative emotion is to replace it: Replace anger with love, fear with faith, complaining with gratitude, bitterness with forgiveness, judgment with acceptance and feeling sorry for yourself with helping someone else.
MEMORY VERSE: Psalm 51:17
PRAYER: Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
