Attitude at Will
Bible Reading Today: Leviticus 22-23
Leviticus 22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
One of the hardest things to do is have a calm, collected reaction & attitude as we go through the motions of the day. We forget we have a choice in the matter! When something bad happens, we automatically give negativity right back, most of the time. When good happens, we react with good...but what if we chose our attitude instead of letting our situations decide? As the Scripture states about thanksgiving offerings...offer them at your own will! The Israelites had to give a thankful offering willingly, remembering to put their hearts into it. Would God want us to offer Him forced thankfulness? To do His work with an unwilling attitude? We may not always feel up to the task at hand...but we CAN control our attitudes! We can remind ourselves of the great God we serve and the eternal purpose of it all. Wouldn't it be great to have joyfulness and thankfulness drive us through life all the way to eternity!? Of course it will be a life practice, improving more & more each day, but I think that's a challenge we should be willing to accept! We will feel so much better! "But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil."
Luke 6:35
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Gina Pietrzak
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