Morning Moments

A MATTER OF ATTITUDE

Benjamin Franklin once said, “The sentence which has most influenced my life is, ‘Some persons grumble because God placed thorns among roses. Why not thank God because He placed roses among thorns?’ I first read it when but a mere lad. Since that day it has occupied a front room in my life and has given it an optimistic trend.” To be meek is to have a disposition to see the roses among the thorns, rather than to complain about the thorns among the roses. Which do you see? Your answer will help you to judge whether you possess that meekness of which our Savior spoke.

1 Thes. 5:18
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Gratitude is a matter of attitude and only you can control your attitude. Whether or not you face adversity or accolades doesn’t matter. What matters most is what is going on inside your heart. The apostle Paul put it this way:

Philip. 4:8 (KJV)
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Think of things that are TRUE – rumors run rampant and it is a simpleton that believes everything he/she hears. Mama use to say, “Don’t believe anything you hear and about half of what you see”. What she meant was “make sure that what is told you is true and that what you see is really what you see. It is obvious that things are not always as they appear and rarely what others say they are.

As we begin this New Year and this new week, let’s meditate on HOW we are to think. It will make a big difference in the way we live.

BLESSINGS in 2010