March 30, 2010
Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.
- Proverbs 4:23
Attitude is very important; our attitudes become the behavior that we display. Attitude, good or bad, begins with thoughts.
A well-known quotation says, “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
Destiny is the outcome of life; character is who we are; habits are subconscious patterns of behavior. Our destiny, or the outcome of our lives, actually comes from our thoughts. That is where the entire process begins. No wonder the Bible teaches us to entirely renew our minds, developing new attitudes and ideals (see Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:23). We are to be good students of God’s Word and by it develop new thinking patterns, which will ultimately change our entire destiny, the outcome of our lives.
We can hinder the Holy Spirit with bad attitudes such as bitterness, anger, unforgiveness, mean-spiritedness, disrespect, seeking revenge, or being ungrateful-and the list could go on. The Holy Spirit flows through a godly attitude, not an ungodly one.
Examine your attitude regularly and guard it with all diligence, as today’s verse instructs. If you need to change your attitude; all you have to do is change your thoughts.
Satan will always try to fill our minds with wrong thoughts, be we do not have to receive what he tries to give us. I would not take a spoonful of poison simply because someone offered it to me, and neither would you. If we are smart enough to refuse poison, we should be intelligent enough not to allow Satan to poison our thoughts, our attitudes, and ultimately our destiny.
- Proverbs 4:23
Attitude is very important; our attitudes become the behavior that we display. Attitude, good or bad, begins with thoughts.
A well-known quotation says, “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
Destiny is the outcome of life; character is who we are; habits are subconscious patterns of behavior. Our destiny, or the outcome of our lives, actually comes from our thoughts. That is where the entire process begins. No wonder the Bible teaches us to entirely renew our minds, developing new attitudes and ideals (see Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:23). We are to be good students of God’s Word and by it develop new thinking patterns, which will ultimately change our entire destiny, the outcome of our lives.
We can hinder the Holy Spirit with bad attitudes such as bitterness, anger, unforgiveness, mean-spiritedness, disrespect, seeking revenge, or being ungrateful-and the list could go on. The Holy Spirit flows through a godly attitude, not an ungodly one.
Examine your attitude regularly and guard it with all diligence, as today’s verse instructs. If you need to change your attitude; all you have to do is change your thoughts.
Satan will always try to fill our minds with wrong thoughts, be we do not have to receive what he tries to give us. I would not take a spoonful of poison simply because someone offered it to me, and neither would you. If we are smart enough to refuse poison, we should be intelligent enough not to allow Satan to poison our thoughts, our attitudes, and ultimately our destiny.