A
thought by James MacDonald (2015-06-18) from his book, Lord, Change My Attitude: Before It's Too Late (p. 68). Moody
Publishers. Kindle Edition. (Click
on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)
Such a good
thought. It is an attitude that sets the
altitude for living. That is what I
want. I don’t want an attitude that
always keeps me down. I want one that keeps me up. Don’t you?
James deals
with this. He says, “Unfortunately,
there is a kind of low-altitude life that too many people live. It’s a
particular approach that grovels and slums and tries to get by under the radar
of hope. It’s a down-and-dirty, cloudy, damp, depressing, ungrateful,
unthankful, complaining, negative, ugh! sort of living. We’ve all spent some
days there. It’s definitely a wilderness!”
He then
says, “But there is another kind of living. It’s a high-altitude attitude— up
where the air is clean and the sun is shining and the future is as bright as
the promises of God. This life soars above and refuses to focus on the
negative. If you have ever flown up there, then you know that’s where we want
to live our lives.”
I know a lot
of people who are afraid to fly. They
miss so much by staying on the ground.
And that is true in our emotional life.
James says, “You
say, ‘I want to live up there; I hate living down in the depressing low-lands
of this world.’ So do I, and I say again that it’s gratitude that sets the
altitude for the kind of living you’re looking for.”
So what five
things are you thankful for right now?
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