It’s remarkable that you don’t have to please God before He loves you. I am yet to see a specific action that I have to take to please a loving God other than just respond to His arms of love. Now, this is where God is God!
Maintaining A Positive Mental Attitude
There are so much negativity around us. We live in a world perverted with evil but we cannot let evil have any place. We must have and maintain a smart mind to combat evil.
We have a sound mind that can outlast and outsmart evil and pervert situation. We must counter every evil with the truth. The truth will always prevail because only the truth can make people truly free. Evil or lies cannot.
A positive mental attitude can see something good out of every bad or awkward situation. This attitude is result oriented.
Focus your strength on the positive and give less attention to the negative sides. This does not mean you ignore the downside; it only means that you are using your mind effectively.
Jesus said, we cannot gain anything good from getting worried. Anxiety is not positive; it is negative and adds no benefit.
Be hopeful; be optimistic. Evil cannot win. In the end, only good prevails. Truth and only the truth set or make people free. Evil or lies cannot. A positive attitude believes in the possibilities.
Just a little is enough
Most times, we try to do a lot to get (more) of God’s blessing. We often go the extra mile to please Him by doing as much as we can.
But I have come to realize that just a little is enough to impress God.
The Bible says. “if you have a faith as little as a mustard seed….” you can move a mountain.
God told Moses to take a handful of ash dust and caused a great miracle across the entire the Egyptians’ land.
Just a rod path the red sea. A small cloud was enough to indicate an abundance of rain. And two fishes and five loaves of bread or bagel fed thousands.
You can think of more little actions that caused great miracle.
So, stop trying hard, especially stop impressing God. You cannot win His heart because you already have it. How? everything we have is through Jesus, and we could not have earned anything through our own works and righteousness.
All He needs is just a little of your effort and that is enough to earn you your desired miracle.
Stop trying hard!
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New Beginning
Happy new year!
Indeed, it’s a new year and a new start to so many areas of life.
To man, there will always be a new beginning, but to God, there has never been a time that is new or a thing that caught Him unaware.
This makes me think, if I can follow God who has a deep understanding of time, who knows the end from the beginning, who is ageless and never changes by the time, then my success can be guaranteed.
That makes me think that a renewed relationship with God is the most essential for a successful living.
This is not a yearly thing but a daily thing. This is what I believe everyone should pursue and make most paramount as we begin a new year.
It will be a new beginning and a sweet ending in Jesus name.