The attitude of your heart is more important to God than what you do. I suggest you read the following Scriptures, in full, to see what the Lord has to say about the importance of attitude: 1 Samuel 16:7; Psalm 51:6; 16-17; Matthew 15: 18-20 and 23:26 It has been said about attitude: Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what other people think or say or do. Attitude is more important than appearance, fitness or skill. Attitude will make or break a company, a church or a home. The remarkable thing, and I believe youll agree, is this: we each have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will assume for that day. I think you will agree we cannot change our past. We cannot control nor change the fact that people will act in certain ways of their own choosing. In addition, we cannot change the inevitable. The only thing you and I can do on a daily or minute-by-minute basis is to change or control our attitude. If our attitude toward God is one of service, stewardship and complete dependence, then we will never have any financial problems because our attitude is one of complete obedience to the Lord. As we are obedient we will, as good stewards, discover that it is easy to manage our financial affairs as God instructs us over and over again in the Bible. Remember, there are over 800 verses about money management in the Bible. God wants us to be debt-free, to owe no man anything but love. He wants us to be successful and prosperous. But how, we ask? Heres how: You can owe no man anything at all by changing our attitude toward money and then simply spending less than you make! If you will do this one thing, that is spending less than you make, month-after-month, an amazing thing will happen to you and your attitude! For one thing, you will then have money in the bank! Wouldnt that be great? Just think, you could soon have your money working for you instead of the other way around. To say it another way: If you spend all of the money you get, you are a financial failure and your attitude about many things could be one of discouragement, to say the least. More importantly, when you spend more than you make you are not being obedient to the Lord. But, if as a Christian you habitually are obedient to the Lord by always spending less than you make, your life will change. Why? Because, when you have money in the bank it has a direct relationship on the way you live and obviously youll have a whole new, very optimistic attitude. Terry L. Weber weberanchorsoffaith.com originalsbyweber.com |
