Your Attitude will Make You or Break You

Next to knowing Christ as Savior and Master, nothing is more important than having a GOOD, POSITIVE, MENTAL ATTITUDE.  Your attitude will heal you or hurt you.  It can make you friends or enemies.  Your attitude can make you miserable or happy; it will lead you to failure or success. Your attitude can MAKE or BREAK you.

When we begin to feel that things stink, the problem is not w/ the world or w/ others, but with ourselves.  Invite God to change your negative attitudes into positive ones, and it will result in your changing your world.

Your attitude is more important then your past, your education, your financial wealth or poverty, or any other conditions surrounding your life.  Attitude can literally MAKE OR BREAK YOU.  When God created the human mind, He gave us the ability to use our minds to think, reason and decide whether we will focus on positive thoughts or negative thoughts.

Have you heard the story of Victor Frankl, a courageous man who survived the Holocaust?  Under the glaring lights of the Gestapo court in a Nazi concentration camp, soldiers took away all his remaining earthly possessions - his clothes, watch, and even his wedding ring.  Frankl said that he stood there naked, lacking everything except for one asset.  He still possessed something that no one could steal or exploit.  At that moment, he realized that he still had the power to choose his attitude.

We are NOT responsible for other’s dispositions or behavior.  We ARE responsible to God for our own thoughts and actions.  No matter what others do, the attitude we adopt is our own responsibility.

Many make the mistake of allowing negative, unhealthy, or sick people around them shape their outlook.  Rom. 12: 2 reminds us, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world.”  Don’t let the world squeeze u into its own mold.

Your attitude affects ALL YOUR RELATIONSHIPS.  A friend once shared, after he’d listened to a sermon, the Holy Spirit showed him what a destructive attitude he had carried toward his father, and how it’d been a detriment to him his entire life. 

Only one person has gone thru life, never having a bad attitude.  I know people who always have a bad attitude.  I know some those w/ a good attitude most of the time.  The ONLY person who ALWAYS SHOWS a shows a gracious, loving, positive, healthy attitude is Jesus.  That’s why Philippians 2:5 tells us that our “attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.”  Although He was the same nature as God, He lived on earth in human likeness.  As our ultimate role model, He showed us the attitudes that we can adopt to succeed in G’s eyes, no matter what circumstances we face. 

Choose to have a good attitude, because your attitude will make or break you.