A Godly View of the world is a choice

You have no idea what my life is like, all the things I have lost or how much I have suffered.  I can’t get a break.  I get over this thing and am slammed with another.  Groceries have gone up so much that I am spending at least twice what I paid only five years agon.  You have it so good and there is no way you can know what it is like to struggle.  I don’t get it.  I work harder than you, always do the right thing (unlike you) and you have more, living a better life in that fancy house and with a hot car.  Why me?  It’s not fair!

Is this your story!  There have been days that many of us have felt that way.  I have learned something, however.  My life view sometimes needs a new pair of glasses.  The glasses don’t change what is happening; they help erase some of the haze from your view.  What does this mean?  It doesn’t add a rosy tint over everything but it shows not only where you are focusing but also your choice of how you have built or are rebuilding your character.  Yes, I think it’s a choice and I know it not easy and maybe a slow process.  There are peaks and valleys but there is always a way back.  Character is a choice.

How you feel about circumstances, challenges, hardships and losses is changed when you put on glasses to better show a Godly view.  Huh?  Come again.  Huh?  Speak In a way that makes sense, in my language!

This blog opened with what focus?  The main-character in this life is the speaker.  It is not the family; it is not the community, country, and certainly not spiritual.  It is all about SELF.  Now, lets be real.  We have to spend a lot of time on CARE of ourselves.  It is called survival. We have to work to earn or produce that which we need to survive and thrive.  Those with kids often give the next largest portion of priorities to kids/family.  Then, most times, the rest of the priority bucket is spent on the rest of things. 

Even those who are believers in God and His divine provisions may still not have adjus

ted fully to thinking in a way that is not taught in the Bible.  I am still in that learning curve with some days focusing on the ways outlined in the Bible and, some days, I get up with not a thankful heart.  I get up with a grumpy ME-HEART.  I have this pain, that issue, tired because I didn’t sleep well, and there’s more.  I am not on the right THINKING-PATH.  I need to seriously focus on remediation.

I also have to work to not beat myself up but I do need repent while acknowledging that I need an attitude adjustment.  Pow!  Here we go!  Done!  Not me!  I have to relearn, practice, take action for improvement in body, spirit and soul.  I have to intentionally start cleaning the lens on my view.

I don’t have the answers but need a glasses update to change my main-character.   Look below to see where I start my lesson. 

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it.  I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.  I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.  I can do all this through him who gives me strength.  Philippians 4