2 Timothy 2: 8
In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy.
Again, I am still emphasizing the matter of ‘attitude’, some of you might say, ‘hasn’t it enough?’ But I tell you, we never end in learning in our process of life! Even we are old and matured, many of us still suffer in the matter of attitude!
Attitude is a key of success of life and social skills. You can never deny that the attitude can determine the success or failure of your life, as how you treat the thing, then how you will be treated with. How should I put this? Let’s have some bread of life:
Matthew 7:3
The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.
(The measure you give will be the measure you get back)
Even God said that how you measure the thing that you viewed, and then you will be measured back with that measure. It applies in all sorts of living, not only in judging others. For example, when you are in your career of engineering, if you measure this career as worthless and treat it with a pessimistic mindset, ‘How can engineer success in life? Engineers are worthless and nothing can be done under an engineer!’ Then the rest of his life will end up being a worthless engineer. It is not the factor that engineers do not have a bright future, but the person itself treat it with a wrong attitude.
Again I say, attitude is very significant by all means! Before you enhance in your skills in the area that you wished to involve into, you must tune your attitude right! Notice this before-after basis!
Before: Tune your attitude right
After: Enhance in your area
It is the same when we pray (2 Tim 2:8), we should have our holy hands lifted up, that means we should be devoted and do not be distracted! Secondly, we should free from anger, it is obvious right? How can we pray when we are in anger? We might curse the person instead of pray for him and bless him, in other words, we should get rid of all our internal feelings, including sadness, anxiety, anger. Commit them all to the Lord, then this will be the right attitude. Thirdly, we should free from controversy, which means we should talk the talk and walk the walk!
Friends, let us tune up our attitude before we do anything, for it a major factor for everything!
Franco
1 comment:
Cool! I like this one and I can identify with it. Thanks for the reminder!
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