A Godly Attitude

Attitude

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

Charles Swindoll, American Pastor, Author

Phil 3:13-16
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained. NASU

Jules Ellinger, the mother of the current Queen of Great Britain, said this of courage, “Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. I guess you could say a lot of that spirit resides in her daughter. She also said this, “A statue has never been erected to the memory of one who let well enough alone.” I like her attitude, for I think that it is important for us not to be led into a homogenized society, but to be different, and equal.

The attitude that we carry within, as Swindoll has said, really determines our future. Paul, says to us in Philippians that we should have an attitude created within us by the upward call of God “in Christ Jesus.” Now what is that, and how do you and I attain this attitude of the perfect. Did you just hear what I said? It is an attitude that is held only by the perfect.

Your next question is how can I ever be perfect, how can I ever attain this attitude? By accepting the grace and healing perfection that Christ Jesus has put on our lives. Romans 8:1-2 tells us therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death, and again in Romans 13:14, Paul tells us “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

We must identify who we are in our lives at this moment as being hidden in God and protected by the blood of Christ. We must have this different attitude to be able to survive the onslaught of Satan against the Children of God. If we do not then we will try to face him (Satan) in our own righteousness, which can only lead to destructive consequences in our lives, in Christ we are complete…God Bless.

Pastor William