Something I have been pondering on this morning: Have you ever been around a negative person? All they do is say the negative, rarely is there anything positive that comes off their lips. I am not talking about the power of positive thinking or this whole faith movement of name it claim it, blab it, grab it. But I think we forget that our God is a positive thinking God. He tells us in Jeremiah that His thoughts towards us are positive ones, not negative ones. For I know the thoughts I think toward you, say the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29:11) In spite of all the bad things I do, say or think, in spite of all my faults and failures, the Lord does not look at me and see the bad. He only sees the good in me. He only sees Jesus Christ. He only sees the positive, that I am His, that I am sanctified, justified and will be glorified in His presence. How different would our relationships with others be if we started to look at them the way God sees them. How would our relationships look then? When someone hurt us, or wrongs us, or treats us unfairly- and instead of looking at them and the situation in a negative light, we instead chose to see the positive. That they are sinners in need of a Savior, just like we are. What if we looked at people the way God looks at us? What if we thought about people the way God thinks about us? How would your relationships with your family, your husband, your co-workers, your fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord look then? I am an optimist, there is no doubt about that. I believe that our God is too. He has to be. The world is going to hell in a hand basket, yet He looks on all His creation, every man woman and child and says, I know the thoughts I think toward you....thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. What if we started doing the same?
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 12:44:40 +0000
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