DAILY WRITING

 Day 3

When the weather is cold and dreary we tend to think it’s a ‘bad day’. We update our Facebook statuses to ‘Why is it such bad weather’ and ‘My plans are ruined because of the rain’. We long for the warm weather and complain because our heaters cost too much to use.

It’s the same with life. When we’re going through something tough and stressful, we tend to think it’s a ‘bad’ thing. We complain, we ask God what on earth He is doing; we forget all the great things in our lives and focus on the cold, dreary parts of our lives.

But this isn’t good for us. See, I have a bit of a problem with complaining. Whenever something goes wrong I think it can’t be changed, that it’s permanent, and that it’s not good enough. But, like the weather, our lives are always changing, and very often it’s our attitude towards something that’s going to change it for the better or, unfortunately, for the worse.

In 1 Kings 11:10-11 it says ‘Although He had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep The Lord’s command. So The Lord said to Solomon, ‘Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.’’

How often do you think of your attitude? I hadn’t realised I had an attitude problem until someone pointed it out to me. Now I think before I say things, and I try to look on the bright side of things more often. I may have felt this person was judging me at the time, but now I can see that it’s a good thing they were honest enough to show me where I was going wrong.

Romans 3:10 reminds us that ‘There is no one righteous, not even one’.

It’s okay to ask someone to point out where you may be going wrong, and for you to admit to your flaws. After all, we’re only human. Righteous pretty much means perfect, flawless. We’re all sinners, which means that none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous.

When your attitude changes for the better, everything seems so much easier to handle, trust me. I was struggling with a particular thing for ages, and then I simply gave it all up to God, and He helped me to change my attitude. I learned that it wasn’t other people doing everything the wrong way, it was my heart that was turned the wrong way. I saw that there was no problem, except that I was making a big deal out of something so small, and I had a bad attitude towards some people.

To conclude what I’m saying, 1 Timothy 5:5 says ‘The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.’